Improving performance of bulk loading data

Hi all,

We're experiencing some problems during bulk loading of new data into our MonetDB database. We use COPY INTO to load several CSV files every day but this loading takes (too) long but more importantly the database is completely unresponsive with regards to any incoming queries therefore completely disabling our production environment.

I'm currently looking into improving this proces and the hardware of our MonetDB server is obviously one of the starting points. Does anyone know which specs should be upgraded? Would adding more core's/CPU's have the most positive effect? Or perhaps more memory?

Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards, Dennis Pallett