Debugging Apache and Mysql

If you’re getting too many MySQL threads or Apache connections, and you would like to debug them, here are two possible ways to get the info you need:

Apache

fullstatus – Displays a full status report from mod_status. For this to work, you need to have mod_status enabled on your server and a text-based browser such as lynx available on your system. The URL used to access the status report can be set by editing the STATUSURL variable in the script.

MySQL

SHOW PROCESSLIST shows you which threads are running. You can also get this information from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROCESSLIST table or the mysqladmin processlist command. If you have the PROCESS privilege, you can see all threads. Otherwise, you can see only your own threads (that is, threads associated with the MySQL account that you are using). If you do not use the FULL keyword, only the first 100 characters of each statement are shown in the Info field.


The watch command is also pretty useful for monitoring things in “real-time”.