Döhr, Markus ICC-H wrote: Hi!
> [...] > >>And even if I had enough RAM to keep only 6 GB: At the >>current read-spead of the DB it takes almost 2 hours to >>completely slurp in the data. >> >>Working with this system you can actually feel this: If you >>access something by an index that is currently not cached it >>takes _ages_ - subsequent accesses are as quick as you would expect. >> >>I'd like to hear something from SAP here: What kind of >>hardware do they suggest for proper i/o-performance? > We are seeing this too - and IMHO it's not the I/O subsystem that is causing > issues but the sequential read of the database itself (no PQO, no prefetch > (yet)). i dont really care - it's inside the DB :) > We're actually seeing this when we're exporting a (SAP) database of ~ 150 > GB. It takes about 28 hours to determin the size of the tables (via select > count(*) <tablename>) - over the weekend on a not loaded EVA system. The > parallel export itself is then done in 4 hours. isnt the engine supposed to know the size of tables? that's what they told us at TU-Berlin when they showed some internals some years ago - i still have the slides :) but i know that this optimization does not exist. > This issue is known and AFAIK beeing worked on. it's known for ages and it should've been solved with 7.6 - i'm really curious if anything will happen at all :( Raimund -- *NEWS* Pinuts präsentiert neue Entwicklungen auf der CeBIT 2006 Vereinbaren Sie einen Termin, http://www.pinuts.de/cebit06 Pinuts media+science GmbH http://www.pinuts.de Dipl.-Inform. Raimund Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krausenstr. 9-10 voice : +49 30 59 00 90 322 10117 Berlin fax : +49 30 59 00 90 390 Germany -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]