What is your data load method? What is the type of your table(s)? With LOAD DATA and text files, I load several million rows in about a minute.
Also please don't cross-post. Better first find out what the most suitable mailing list is. Ignatius _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Creigh Shank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-db List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHPList Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michiel Dethmers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:58 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Need For SPEED > Using an Apache/PHP/MySQL/Linux (Redhat 8.0) solution, PHPList, to create > an e-mailing list for our 5.6 million book club members. Unfortunately, > the import speed for importing records (at record number 150,000 the rate > is about 2,000 records per hour). We're running on the following: > > P4 (1.5 Ghz), 1.2 Gbytes RAM (650 Mbytes RAM Disk using ramfs), IDE drive > (72,00 rpm) > > So far we've moved the MySQL data files (var/lib/mysql), PHP /tmp and > upload directories and PHPlist web site files to RAM Disk (still just > testing - not yet dealing with data safety issues). With all of this > tuning we're still at only 2,000 records per hour for uploading. > > We need to be at 100,000 records per hour (uploading and sending seem to > run at about the same rate - we need to be able to send to all book club > members in the same week). Any suggestions? > > Creigh > > (We're planning to run the system on a server with dual Opterons, 8 Gbytes > RAM and RAID-5 SCSI drives, but I don't think the additional system > horsepower will solve our problem.) > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
