Optimizing use of the network
The MySQL database server opens up network interfaces to connect with the clients and starts listening to these interfaces. The connection manager threads are responsible for handling client connection requests. The connection manager threads additionally handle socket files on the Unix platform. The connection manager thread takes care of shared-memory connection requests, and one other thread handles named-pipe connection requests on the Windows system. Threads are not created for the interfaces that the server does not listen to.
The connection manager thread allocates a thread to each client connection. The thread authenticates and takes care of request processing for that client connection. The manager threads ...
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