diff --git a/admin_manual/configuration/performance_tips.rst b/admin_manual/configuration/performance_tips.rst
index 5f70c35eb..031d39656 100644
--- a/admin_manual/configuration/performance_tips.rst
+++ b/admin_manual/configuration/performance_tips.rst
@@ -41,3 +41,5 @@ Memcached servers must be specified in the "memcached_servers" array in ownCloud
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 MySQL or MariaDB should be preferred because of the `performance limitations of SQLite with highly concurrent applications <http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html>`_, like ownCloud.
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+On large instances you could consider `running MySQLTuner <https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/>`_ to optimize the database.