Import of 8GB mysql dump takes a long time
I've got an 8GB MYSQL database dump of InnoDB tables created with mysqldump. I import the data with: mysql -uroot -p my_db < dump.sql An 5 GB dump of the DB was imported within an hour. The 8 GB dump takes 50 hour and counting. When I inspected the processlist with SHOW PROCESSLIST; Most of the time there was a single INSERT query visible with state "'freeing items" Is there a way, besides copying the raw files, to speed up the import process? The trick really, is to ensure that the biggest single table fits in the innodb buffer pool. If it does not, then inserts (and import of course) will be