title: How can mysql insert millions records faster?
body: <p>I wanted to insert about millions records into my database, but it went very slow with a speed about 40,000 records/hour, I dont think that my hardware is too slow, because i saw the diskio is under 2 MiB/s. I have many tables seperated in different .sql-files. One single record is also very simple, one record has less than 15 columns and one column has less than 30 characters. I did this job under archlinux with mysql 5.3. Do you guys have any ideas? Or is this speed not slow?</p>