MySQL load data infile - acceleration?

Question

sometimes, I have to re-import data for a project, thus reading about 3.6 million rows into a MySQL table (currently InnoDB, but I am actually not really limited to this eng

Answer 1

This blog post is almost 3 years old, but it's still relevant and has some good suggestions for optimizing the performance of "LOAD DATA INFILE":

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/05/24/predicting-how-long-data-load-would-take/