DB2 LOAD: Poor performance while loading table with large BLOBs
As Chris already mentioned LOAD is a utility and therefore the UTIL_HEAP_SZ must be set high enough (but don't ask too much, always monitor the memory free space with top). You need a lot of memory for a fast load (see DATA BUFFER below).

Here are things that speed up the load:


More containers for the tablespace where the table is (best on separate luns / disks)
DATA BUFFER parameter (default 25% of UTIL_HEAP_SZ), make it bigger 400-800 (4K) per CPU core available.
ANYORDER (allows LOAD to abandon the input order, bad if you load in clustering order) can give 30% boost
FASTPARSE (use only if data is clean e.g. unloaded from other table) can give 15% boost
SAVECOUNT - the higher the better I use #input records/10, so for 100M records the savecount is 10000000 - in your case 1 the LOAD has to update the restart data with every record = SLOW!


Note: always collect statistics with STATISTICS YES during load. It is faster than LOAD + RUNSTATS

Good luck and let us know your improvements!