Thom Ericson wrote:
Marian Olteanu wrote:
You should embed the inserts into a transaction. Otherwise every
insert is a
separate ACID transaction = 2 disk spins.
I thought putting 128 of the inserts between "BEGIN;" and "COMMIT;"
did that. Am I confused?
Thom,
You are correct about putting 128 inserts between the begin and commit.
You may get even higher performance if you use a larger batch size of
500 or 1000 inserts. This amortizes the journal file creation, data
copies, and deletion over more inserts. Right now you are doing about 4
transactions per second. With a batch size of 1000 you might get 1
transaction per second, but 1000 inserts per second. Its easy to do, so
its probably worth a try.
HTH
Dennis Cote
