Re: Rapidly decaying performance repopulating a large table

On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:46 PM, David Wilson wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>>
>> Try upping your checkpoint segments.  Some folks find fairly large
>> numbers like 50 to 100 to be helpful.  Each segment = 16Megs, so be
>> sure not to run your system out of drive space while increasing it.
>>
>
> Ahh, much more progress. Upping the segments to 50, timeout to 30m and
> completion target to 0.9 has improved average copy time to between 2
> and 10 seconds, which is definitely an improvement. Thanks for the
> help. Any other random thoughts while you're at it? :)

Has anyone yet pointed out the standards:  drop indexes and foreign
keys and rebuild them once the entire data import is finished?

Erik Jones

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