No, it is one transaction per insert. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:38 PM To: Orhan Aglagul Subject: RE: [PERFORM] On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:36, Orhan Aglagul wrote: > But 10,000 records in 65 sec comes to ~153 records per second. On a dual > 3.06 Xeon.... > What range is acceptable? If you're doing that in one big transaction, that's horrible. Because it shouldn't be waiting for each insert to fsync, but the whole transaction.