Hi, I alluded to this in IRC maybe a couple of weeks back. That is, it is really to have intelligent default for MariaDB servers. In particular, the bundled sample my.cnf files, under /usr/local/mysql/support-files, such as my-small.cnf, my-medium.cnf, my-large.cnf, and my-huge.cnf, are laughable in today's world. In the my-huge.cnf, it talks about memory between 1G and 2G as huge. It will be good that MariaDB can bundle a different set, like what has been mentioned here: http://datastrangler.com/windpipe/2011/02/24/custom-mysql-config-files-to-en... I think the sample cnf files in the above blog post is a good starting point. Thanks, Haidong "Alex" Ji PS: I modified http://kb.askmonty.org/v/installing-mariadb-binary-tarballs with the addition of modifying $PATH so a casual user will be able to use various MariaDB clients after the install.