12.1.1 MySQL Threads

The MySQL server creates the following threads:

• The TCP/IP connection thread handles all connection requests and creates a new dedicated thread to handle the authentication and SQL query processing for each connection.
• On Windows NT there is a named pipe handler thread that does the same work as the TCP/IP connection thread on named pipe connect requests.
• The signal thread handles all signals. This thread also normally handles alarms and calls process_alarm() to force timeouts on connections that have been idle too long.
• If mysqld is compiled with -DUSE_ALARM_THREAD, a dedicated thread that handles alarms is created. This is only used on some systems where there are problems with sigwait() or if one wants to use the thr_alarm() code in ones application without a dedicated signal handling thread.
• If one uses the --flush_time=# option, a dedicated thread is created to flush all tables at the given interval.
• Every connection has its own thread.
• Every different table on which one uses INSERT DELAYED gets its own thread.
• If you use --master-host, a slave replication thread will be started to read and apply updates from the master.

mysqladmin processlist only shows the connection, INSERT DELAYED, and replication threads.

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