"James E Hicks III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have encountered an interesting problem using mysql. On both 3.23 and another
> 4.01 server when I try to batch load a file with sql statements (ex. mysql -u
> user -p < mysql_statements.SQL) and the file is greater that 500MB it never
> seems to finish. I have never had the patiences to see if it ever does. Last
> night I watched the tables as they were loading and as soon as the DB got to ~
> 500 MB the inserts would slow down to a crawl. Before it gets to 500MB the
> server is loading 100's of records at a time, after 500MB the server may load 2
> records/5minutes. When I broke the mysql_statements.SQL into smaller files and
> consecutively loaded these files, the load only took 5 minutes top. Any ideas
> what I can do to get these large files to load without breaking them down? Is
> there a server config value I missed?
> James E Hicks III

Looks quite strange: I have used to load gigabytes of data this way with no
problem. 

Try to upgrade server to the latest binary release (4.0.13?) for your OS.. 




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