"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> How do other databases deal with this? I can't imagine we are the only >> ones. Are we doing something different than them? > > I'm not sure the people qualified to answer that are able to do so. What > do other OSS projects do about this is more likely an answerable > question. >
I happened to know that a similar problem which is called "convoy phenomenon" is discussed in 1979 (Wow! :-)) But not exactly the same case maybe. I copied the paper and put it here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zhouqq/convoy.pdf Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
