I tried to reproduce this with exact same version and by using your my.cnf but no avail. I couldn't reproduce this problem. mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'; +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | innodb_version | 5.6.35-81.0 | | protocol_version | 10 | | slave_type_conversions | | | tls_version | TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 | | tokudb_version | 5.6.35-81.0 | | version | 5.6.35-81.0-log | | version_comment | Percona Server (GPL), Release 81.0, Revision c96c427 | | version_compile_machine | x86_64 | | version_compile_os | Linux | +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec) -- created test tables using InnoDB and TokuDB engines. mysql> use information_schema mysql> show tables; 79 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> SELECT * FROM TABLES; 161 rows in set (0.03 sec) mysql> SHOW ENGINES; +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints | +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO | | MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO | | BLACKHOLE | YES | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO | NO | NO | | MyISAM | YES | MyISAM storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | TokuDB | YES | Percona TokuDB Storage Engine with Fractal Tree(tm) Technology | YES | YES | YES | | PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | YES | Performance Schema | NO | NO | NO | | ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine | NULL | NULL | NULL | | InnoDB | DEFAULT | Percona-XtraDB, Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES | YES | YES | +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) I even tried to query information_schema tables randomly through script but no crashes either.