On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:07:33PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >... > We've been through this; read the threads please. But long story short, a
That's a cop out. "read the threads" ... how is a person to start? There are a billion threads on buckets, brigades, filtering, etc. > 'bucket' is a unit that _may_ be read into memory (although it need not) > while the 'brigade' may obviously be huge. No. A bucket is a unit of data. Totally unrelated to reading into memory. It is *entirely* feasible to create a bucket that represents 20G of data and then shove that out a socket. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
