hey, as the sub says I have a dump of a 50GB (MYD/60GB MYI) table I need to load on another server.
I guess the bigger question is how can I optimize this, particularly the index builds? I had always thought is was best in these cases to create the table w/o any indexes, load the rows then create the keys but watching what's happening on the filesystem makes me suspect MySQL's rebuilding the entire table and previously created indexes with each incremental index added - is this the case? I see that mysqldump puts all the keys in the create table statement (vs. Oracle exp which creates them post-rows) which would seem to imply it's better to extended insert with existing indexes vs creating them afterward... bottom line: how do I optimize this load (my.cnf settings, deferred index build [or not], etc)? I have the box completely to myself so nothing's off the table... thanks!
