If you want to check the server status by with "mysqladmin", you can following this tutorial example:

>cd mysqlin

>mysqladmin -u root status

Uptime: 223 Threads: 1 Questions: 1 Slow queries: 0

Opens: 12 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 6

Queries per second avg: 0.004

The returning message indicates that the server is almost doing nothing at this moment.