MySQL show status - active or total connections?

Question

When I run show status like \'Con%\' it shows the number of connections, which is 9972 and constantly growing. Is this an active number of connections or connec

Answer 1

This is the total number of connections to the server till now. To find current conection status you can use

mysqladmin -u -p extended-status | grep -wi 'threads_connected\|threads_running' | awk '{ print $2,$4}'

This will show you:

Threads_connected 12

Threads_running 1  

Threads_connected: Number of connections

Threads_running: connections currently running some sql