and the files are small. could be 10-50 lines of text, orginal lines are stored and also they are parsed between different tables.
Simon Slavin-3 wrote: > > > On 9 Nov 2011, at 10:21pm, yqpl wrote: > >> im starting a transaction >> then make a lot of inserts and commit. >> ive got about 30 inserts per second but after a while it is dropping to >> about 1-2 inserts per second. it takse about ~500 inserts to drop to this >> 1-2 insert per sec. > > Here is a guess, but it is just a guess. > > Your computer has a certain amount of memory, or disk cache free. While > your whole SQLite database fits in that space, your process is fast. Once > the database gets bigger than that amount of free, the computer has to > keep swapping bits of file in and out, and this makes the process slower. > So my guess is that the slow down will be related not to the number of > inserts so far, but to the total size of the database file so far. > > Something that will help to clarify this is to get an idea of how big the > files are that you are inserting. There was a recent post to this list > where the SQLite team had tested the relative speeds of holding entire > image files in a SQLite database compared to holding just the paths of > those files. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/inserts%2C-performance%2C-file-lock...-tp32814772p32815040.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users