(Contents of the README file)
Pythian's MySQL Tuner (http://launchpad.net/mysqltuner). MySQL Tuner name used with the permission of the original mysq
ltuner creator, Major Hayden.
This version of mysqltuner uses a configuration file where you can change the thresholds, add new variables/calculations
to check, and custom tune the recommendations output.
There is a default config file in this package, to use it, run:
mysqltuner.pl --config tuner-default.cnf
Connecting:
By default, mysqltuner.pl will ask for a username and password and connect to the mysqld instance on localhost. You can
use the following options to mysqltuner.pl to set the mysqld instance to connect to:
--host <hostname> Host to connect to for data retrieval (default: localhost)
--port <port> Port to ...