Kill Idle Transactions

Kill Idle Transactions

This feature limits the age of idle transactions, for all transactional storage engines. If a transaction is idle for more seconds than the threshold specified, it will be killed. This prevents users from blocking InnoDB purge by mistake.

Version Specific Information

  • 8.0.12-1:
    Feature ported from Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

System Variables

variable kill_idle_transaction
Scope:GLOBAL
Config:YES
Dynamic:YES
Variable Type:INTEGER
Default Value:0 (disabled)
Units:Seconds

If non-zero, any idle transaction will be killed after being idle for this many seconds.

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