How to know about DB health from "Table_locks_immediate" and "Table_locks_waited" in mysql

mysql database table-locking
H4XOR picture H4XOR · Mar 1, 2013 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

How to know the health of the mysql db by seeing the "Table_locks_immediate" and "Table_locks_waited" values from DB status.

I want to know if the ratio between "Table_locks_immediate" and "Table_locks_waited" is of any importance.

Answer

user1342336 picture user1342336 · Jun 10, 2013

You may learn something from :

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/internal-locking.html.

and

http://www.mysqlperformancetuning.com/how-to-speed-up-mysql-by-optimization

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