Hi, so I read several times on the mailing-list, that it is indeed possible to run several MonetDB instances on the same server. I tried this myself with the following configuration: System: Linux ... 3.13.0-79-generic #123-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 19 14:27:58 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux MonetDB version: mercurial revision 324165f1d055 from branch default (also tested with the topmost version) Configure script parameters: --disable-geom --disable-fits --disable-netcdf --disable-lidar --disable-shp --disable-gsl --disable-rintegration --disable-pyintegration --disable-jdbc --prefix=/home/bruder/monetdb-root --disable-assert --disable-testing --enable-optimize --program-suffix='-dsh' 1. Another version is running with a different user on the default port 50000 2. With my user, I set up a local db-farm, using port 49999. (A prefix is used on binaries, to prevent any conflicts with the existing version.) Creating a new database with *monetdbd* works, but once I try to start it with *monetdb*, it gives me the following error message: starting database 'test'... FAILED start: starting 'test' failed: database 'test' appears to shut itself down after starting, check monetdbd's logfile for possible hints Another thing I tried was starting mserver5 by hand: mserver5-dsh --dbpath=/home/bruder/monetdb-dbfarm/test --set merovingian_uri=mapi:monetdb://dbiron2:49999/test --set mapi_open=false --set mapi_port=0 --set mapi_usock=/home/bruder/monetdb-dbfarm/test/.mapi.sock --set monet_vault_key=/home/bruder/monetdb-dbfarm/test/.vaultkey --set gdk_nr_threads=16 --set max_clients=64 --set sql_optimizer=default_pipe --set monet_daemon=yes This time it won't accept my password (I assume the default password is *monetdb*): mclient-dsh -p49999 -dtest -umonetdb InvalidCredentialsException:checkCredentials:invalid credentials for user 'monetdb' I added the log file and the properties of the db-farm. Regards, Moritz