Poor man's mytop
Thu, Feb 17, 2011 in Databases Open Source ProgrammingI often need to watch a server that’s very minimally configured, e.g. has no Perl DBI libraries installed, and I shouldn’t install anything. The following snippet is a quick way to do that:
watch 'mysqladmin proc | grep -v Sleep | cut -b0-130'
Replace 130 by the width of your terminal, naturally.
(Of course, innotop is much more featureful than mytop, but mytop is the essential functionality we’re going for here!)
I'm Baron Schwartz, the founder and CEO of VividCortex. I am the author of High Performance MySQL and lots of open-source software for performance analysis, monitoring, and system administration. I contribute to various database communities such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB. More about me.