JDBC insert too slow

[Piyush Mattoo]

I have to insert 100K records into a table having 4 fields. Normal JDBC Insert seems to load 2K records per minute. Any ideas how to improve the execution time?
The flow is something like this:
Open a connection.
Read the record from a .txt file inside a loop.
Issue executeUpdate to insert the record.
Commit after every 10 records. (Tried autocommitting or commiting after x records; where x were different combinations)
Outside the loop, when all the input have been read; i close the connection and file reader, Buffered reader objects.
In the finally block, i close the Statement, connection objects.

TIA!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

You can decrease the number of database roundtrips by using executeBatch instead. This will increase performance.

[Piyush Mattoo]

Yeah..i tried executing about 100 records together in a batch and committing them but there seems to be no improvement whatsoever.

[Paul Sturrock]

You could disable any indices and constraints.