Hi Alex, thank you for these. very comforting. and thank you for picolisp!
my thanks also to Mateusz and Henrik. guys, keep em coming! i am deeply enjoying this. i hope the rest are too. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edwin, > >> if anybody would be so kind to share how they have experienced running >> picolisp in production. fine, not just stories, but also numbers. how > > Since we are using PicoLisp in production since 1986, I could perhaps > tell a lot if I should remember it all. Concerning numbers, we have > several customers running many years. Our oldest customer using the > current system has the system running since January 2001 without > interruption. The database of that customer is not very big, though (430 > Megabytes, 277723 objects). > > >> big have your databases grown? how fast has the picolisp appserver > > The biggest databases we had for another project, for systems indexing > and classifying filer systems of big customers (I should not tell names > here). There we had distributed databases (up to 70 interconnected > databases) with nearly one billion objects. The larger databases within > such a system were around 100-200 GB, more typical was around 20-80 GB. > > >> delivered your queries? did you ever get to see the picolisp database > > I have never directly measured that speed, that wasn't an issue as all > those apps were not oriented for especially many clients. In this > context perhaps the results of the database contest in the german c't > magazine (http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/2006/13/190) are relevant, > where PicoLisp on the second price. > > >> recover from unforeseen system errors like crashes from the operating >> system and so? > > Fortunately, not yet. We tested such situations, however (pulling the > plug), and normal power outages happened from time to time whithout any > data loss so far. > > >> can you please share your stories? would love to hear them. > > I'm afraid I'm not a good story-teller, so I hope the above fragments > are useful ;-) > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
