JJZolx;424616 Wrote: 
> I can see it having an impact, and apparently it does.
> 
> Imagine that parsing of the files takes up 90% of the 'Directory Scan'
> and that database access takes up just 10%.  Of a scan that requires 30
> minutes, 27 minutes is in parsing the files and 3 minutes is database
> activity.  Now throw a slower database engine at the problem, and
> imagine it takes twice as long to do the same database operations.  That
> would mean the scan now requires 33 minutes.  It doesn't matter that
> parsing the files takes up the larger share of the time.

OK, but that means you'd lose 10%, that's not too bad, isn't it?
Now if the scanner were 11% faster than before it could compensate for
your 100% performance loss on the DB.

But it's not 90% for me, it's like 60-70%


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