SHOW POOL_CACHE(1)

NAME
SHOW_POOL_CACHE - displays cache storage statistics

SYNOPSIS

   SHOW POOL_CACHE

DESCRIPTION

SHOW POOL_CACHE displays in memory query cache statistics if in memory query cache is enabled. Here is an example session: See Table 26, “Items displayed in show pool_cache” for a description of each item.

        test=# \x
        \x
        Expanded display is on.
        test=# show pool_cache;
        show pool_cache;
        -[ RECORD 1 ]---------------+---------
        num_cache_hits              | 891703
        num_selects                 | 99995
        cache_hit_ratio             | 0.90
        num_hash_entries            | 131072
        used_hash_entries           | 99992
        num_cache_entries           | 99992
        used_cache_entries_size     | 12482600
        free_cache_entries_size     | 54626264
        fragment_cache_entries_size | 0

    Note

    If the cache storage is memcached, values for all columns except num_cache_hits, num_selects and cache_hit_ratio show 0.

Table 26. Items displayed in show pool_cache
Name | Description
num_cache_hits | The number of hits against the query cache.
num_selects | The number of SELECT that did not hit against the query cache.
cache_hit_ratio | The cache hit ratio. Calculated as num_cache_hits/(num_cache_hits+num_selects).
num_hash_entries | The number of entries in the hash table used to manage the cache. In order to manage large number of cache Pgpool-II uses the hash table. The number of hash entries is automatically adjusted to the nearest power of two greater than memqcache_max_num_cache. For example, 100,000, which is the default for memqcache_max_num_cache is adjusted to 131,072 (2 to the 17th power).
used_hash_entries | The number of used hash entries. If the value approaches num_hash_entries, it is recommended to increase num_hash_entries. Even if all the hash table entries are used, no error is raised. However, performance suffers because hash table entries and caches are reused to register new cache entries.
num_cache_entries | The number of cache entries already used. In the current implementation the number should be identical to used_hash_entries.
free_cache_entries_size | The size in bytes of the unsed cache. As this value approaches 0, it removes the registered cache and registers a new cache, which does not cause an error, but reduces performance. Consider to increase memqcache_total_size.
fragment_cache_entries_size | The size in bytes of the fragmented cache. When a registered cache is evicted, the space becomes fragmented until the next time that block is reused. Pgpool-II writes cache in fixed-size blocks specified by memqcache_cache_block_size. When a registered cache is evicted, the space becomes fragmented until the next time that block is reused. fragment_cache_entries_size displays the total size of such fragmented regions.