Hmm. I just fought with a MariaDB installation that, when set to immediate write to a disk, became rather slow. 7-8 INSERTs into a DB could easily take 3 second

Hmm. I just fought with a MariaDB installation that, when set to immediate write to a disk, became rather slow. 7-8 INSERTs into a DB could easily take 3 seconds; unfortunately the internal logic of the system didn't really lend itself to one INSERT of multiple lines. Once I reconfigured innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit to 2, the UI started being lightning fast.