What is MySQL performance tuning and what does it mean ? MySQL has a lot of variables in its configuration. We can edit and set/alter variables to our requirements on our server. We can improve the MySQL performance by varying those values in configuration file. A lot of methods and shell scripts are available for tuning your MySQL server. Here I am explaining the installation and usage of one shell script for tuning the MySQL. This performance tuning shell script will help you to optimize your MySQL server on a huge traffic cPanel server. Installation steps The MySQL tuner has simple installation steps. You can download the latest version from HERE. Step I : SSH to your server as root user. Step II : wget the latest version. wget https://launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer/trunk/1.6-r1/+download/tuning-primer.sh