I ran a file monitor and it appears MySQL has been updating the table's index for the past several hours as part of the Load Data Infile process. Is there any way to speed this up? I'm using MySIAM tables in v4.1.10. Here are the settings I'm using. Is there anything in there that will speed up the re-indexing?

TIA Mike

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