Slow MYSQL Insert to DB MyISAM

Question

I have a file (insert.sql) which has 250k rows like these with no key, no index :

INSERT `project_383`.`entity_metrics_build_1` VALUES ('d402afeb4630267f383b99875f37162d', 'ClMaxCycl', '-1');

INSERT `project_383`.`entity_metrics_build_1` VALUES ('d402afeb4630267f383b99875f37162d', 'ClLMethodsCalled', '0');

I input it to the my MyISAM table using mysql -u root -p project < insert.sql , the total time is 5 minutes.

I see in another thread, people say they can insert millions of rows under 1 seconds. I really don't understand. Can somebody explain for me why my SQL is so slow ?

My Server is 16gb Cpu xeon.

Answer 1

Combine them into a single INSERT with multiple VALUES clauses:

INSERT `project_383`.`entity_metrics_build_1`
VALUES ('d402afeb4630267f383b99875f37162d', 'ClMaxCycl', '-1'),
       ('d402afeb4630267f383b99875f37162d', 'ClLMethodsCalled', '0'),
       ...;

If you look at the file created by mysqldump , this is how it does it.