David A. Desrosiers wrote:

I must have imported enwiki 3-dozen times over the last two weeks on two physically separate machines. I've been thoroughly testing raw import speed with mwdumper/MySQL under BSD 6.2 with/without DMA enabled, IDE drives, SATA drives, and a myriad of other combinations.

Different OS. I am running Linux with FedoraCore 5. I think its related to java incompatibility and/or mysql issues with Federal Core 5. The php-mysql and a lot of other subsystems were changed in the Linux distros due to licensing issues with the MySQL code moving forward.

It works great. You're doing something wrong if it isn't working.

That's a stretch to say, since we are dealing with different OS's. I have purged out the endb database completely and I am re-running the entire mwdumper test with Rob's UPDATE suggestions again. The previous database had data leftover from an importDump.php run. After the test completes, I will post the results. I am farily certain mwdumper has some incompatiblity problems with the stock Linux Distributions as it has been reported in a lot of places.

Since more people run Linux than BSD at present, it bears looking into and getting fixed and/or understood. I am happy to devote time to getting to the bottom of it for Rob and Brion.

Jeff