Troubleshoot MySQL Performance

Login to MySQL

mysql -u root -p

Show Active processes

SHOW PROCESSLIST;

or to list all the processes use “FULL”

SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST;

Run MySQL optimizer

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/mysqltuner.pl
perl ./mysqltuner.pl

MySQL tuner should give some recommendations on settings to tweak.