I am montioring my webserver with cacti using these plugins. the graph Percona MySQL Connections GT show the connections increasing every day by 10/20. when i log into the server and check using cli it is not correct.
#mysqladmin --p extended-status | grep -wi 'threads_connected\|threads_running' | awk '{ print $2,$4}'
Threads_connected 3
Threads_running 1
mysql> show processlist;
+-------+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+-------+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 58625 | root | localhost | NULL | Query | 0 | NULL | show processlist |
+-------+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)