On 27 Jan 2009, at 14:14, Stuart Lewis wrote: > Hi Tom, > >>> The following paper talks about this, and how DSpace performs when >>> ingesting >>> 1 million items: >>> >>> Testing the Scalability of a DSpace-based Archive, Dharitri Misra, >>> James >>> Seamans, George R. Thoma, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, >>> Maryland, >>> USA >>> >>> http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/ist2008_paper_submitted1.pdf >> >> That paper doesn't use the DSpace importer, so I fail to see how it >> can >> claim the importer scales well. > > I don't think it does make such a claim. The claim it makes is that > DSpace > can still provide an acceptable level of ingest performance when > loaded with > 1 million items. > > The original email asked "Is there any known problem with the > maximum size > of dspace database using postgres or in the import tool?" so the > first part > of that, subject as you said to having a 'busy DSpace', is hopefully > to some > extent answered by that paper.
Given that the test in the paper uses neither postgres nor the DSpace import tool, that seems unlikely. -- Simon Brown <[email protected]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 34714 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
