5.6 Connection Configuration Metrics

Lists the Connection configuration metrics and provides a brief description of each.

Table 5.5 Connection Configuration Metrics

NameDescription
Back Log (Total)The number of outstanding connection requests MySQL can have.
Connect Timeout (Total)The number of seconds that the MySQL server waits for a connect packet before responding with 'Bad handshake'.
Init Connect (Total)A string to be executed by the server for each client that connects.
Interactive Timeout (Total)The number of seconds the server waits for activity on an interactive connection before closing it.
Max Connect Errors (Total)If there are more than this number of interrupted connections from a host, that host is blocked from further connections.
Max Connections (Total)The maximum permitted number of simultaneous client connections.
Max User Connections (Total)The maximum number of simultaneous connections permitted to any given MySQL user account.
Net Buffer Length (Total)Each client thread is associated with a connection buffer and result buffer. Both begin with a size given by net_buffer_length but are dynamically enlarged up to max_allowed_packet bytes as needed.
Net Read Timeout (Total)The number of seconds to wait for more data from a connection before aborting the read.
Net Retry Count (Total)If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up.
Net Write Timeout (Total)The number of seconds to wait for a block to be written to a connection before aborting the write.
Skip Name Resolve Enabled (Total)Whether MySQL should resolve host names when checking client connections.
Wait Timeout (Total)The number of seconds the server waits for activity on a noninteractive connection before closing it.