* Jamie Morken <jmorken(a)shaw.ca> [Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:03:18 -0800]:
Ok, the simple question: how many people prefer XML or
sql dumps?
I use XML dumps at my own much smaller wikis all the time. The
advantages are already described by emmanuel(a)engelhart.org
I never tried to load huge wp-en dumps, though. I've head that
importDump.php is too slow or even may be troublesome (memory/resource
leaks?) with these huge dumps. That probably can be fixed to dump in
chunks, then restart the php process. I have suspection towards non-core
tools, like mwdumper, though I never tried that (my dumps are not so
huge).
My voice also has low weight, I am not a core developer.
Dmitriy