If you have many connections to your MySQL or MariaDB (as we have) you might want to filter the list you see when running a SHOW PROCESSLIST. To hide all sleeping processes, you can simply use grep as your pager:

\P grep -v "| Sleep"

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There is an more advanced way by querying the information_schema database: Show MySQL process list without sleeping connections