Throttling mysql command line

[Alex Dean]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Eric Cope wrote:

> good point. Its just a series of INSERTs (8000 or so), but the table
> has a fulltext index, so its pretty slow (10 records/sec).
> It sounds like I should split up the batch script, then load a few,
> pause, load a few, pause, etc.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Eric

Look at 'alter table disable/enable keys'
  you tell the server not to update any indexes while you're doing your bulk load.
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html

Consider loading via tab-delimited rather than SQL.
  Much much faster, but the data file must be on the mysql server's filesystem.
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

As others suggested, do inserts in batches and sleep.

alex