Figured the community could enjoy a little of this. http://blog.solidshellsecurity.com/2013/05/07/correctly-optimize-mysql-cronjob-increase-performance/ cat optimize.sh #!/bin/sh #solidshellsecurity.com mysql -NBe "SHOW DATABASES;" | grep -v 'lost+found' | while read database ; do mysql -NBe "SHOW TABLE STATUS;" $database | while read name engine version rowformat rows avgrowlength datalength maxdatalength indexlength datafree autoincrement createtime updatetime checktime collation checksum createoptions comment ; do if [ "$datafree" -gt 0 ] ; then fragmentation=$(($datafree * 100 / $datalength)) echo "$database.$name is $fragmentation% fragmented." mysql -NBe "OPTIMIZE TABLE $name;" "$database" fi done done Code (markup):