Исходный my.cnf

Для ubuntu 14.04 с отключенным innodb, установленной кодировкой по умолчанию unf8 и немного подправленным конфигом для myisam.

/etc/mysql/my.cnf 

[client]
port            = 3306
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqld_safe]
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice            = 0

[mysqld]

character-set-server=utf8
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8;'
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
user            = mysql
pid-file        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port            = 3306
basedir         = /usr
datadir         = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir          = /tmp
lc-messages-dir = /usr/share/mysql
skip-external-locking
skip-networking
max_connections=200

bind-address            = 127.0.0.1

key_buffer              = 36M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
thread_cache_size = 16

innodb=OFF
#ignore-builtin-innodb
default-storage-engine = myisam

#myisam-recover         = BACKUP

query_cache_limit       = 1M
query_cache_size = 128M

log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log

#expire_logs_days       = 10
#max_binlog_size         = 100M
#innodb_file_per_table = 1
thread_concurrency = 8
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 4M
read_buffer_size = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 1M
table_cache = 1024
key_buffer_size = 512M

[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet      = 16M

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8

[isamchk]
key_buffer              = 16M
write_buffer = 2M
read_buffer = 2M
sort_buffer_size = 128M
key_buffer_size = 128M


!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/