Replying to the list, while ZFS(/FreeBSD users) may be in the extreme
minority, others may get some benefit from the following links
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 9:22 AM Bridger Dyson-Smith
wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 5:35 PM Martin Lourduswamy
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I used
>>
>> db:node-pre(db:text("db", "ae4b577bd9f578556cd")//../..)
>>
>> delete node db:open-pre("db",333)
>>
>> to immensely speed the basex access. Thanks for helping me with how to
>> get a db:node form basex.
>>
>> I have one more question. I am using FreeBSD to host BaseX and it is
>> stable so for in the testing. Are there any known problems of openjdk8 on
>> FreeBSD and baseX. I could not find any issues so far with basex. But I
>> read somewhere that openjdk8 on FreeBSD dumps core some time. I think it is
>> for specific applications only not for baseX. Just a architectural
>> suggestion on picking the best OS to host baseX.
>>
>> Please let me know when you have some time,
>>
>> *gasp* there's another one! :) I am using BaseX and FreeBSD, and have
> been now for several years, and haven't experienced any problems from the
> OpenJDK.
>
> The only thing I can think to mention is that if you're using ZFS on your
> FreeBSD box, you might get some benefit from looking in to
> database-specific tuning for the zpool that hosts BaseX's data files. I'm
> trying to find some relevant links; when I do I'll share them here.
>
BSDnow has a synopsis [1] and linked article [2] on tuning ZFS,
specifically for MySQL performance, but the general methods may also apply
to BaseX.
> ( BaseX works excellent on Windows, CentOS and FreeBSD and produced same
>> results in all of them. But on windows the disk was close to 100% in
>> windows while running my application, centos and FreeBSD has no problems. )
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regards
>> Martin Lourduswamy
>>
>>
Hopefully these come in useful.
> Best,
> Bridger
>
>
[1] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2018_06_06-router_on_a_stick
[2]
https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/05/15/about-zfs-performance/
>>
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>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Christian Grün <
>> christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> The behavior of BaseX is similar on Windows and Linux.
>>>
>>> I would guess you started the application from different directories?
>>> With file:current-dir(), you get your current working directory [1].
>>> file:base-dir() points you to the directory in which your XQuery file
>>> is stored.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Module#file:current-dir
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:35 PM Martin Lourduswamy
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I have a query that creates DB
>>> >
>>> > db:create("database", "db.xml")
>>> >
>>> > I have put the db.xml in the bin dir.
>>> >
>>> > This works for unix/Linux, but on windows I need to specifically give
>>> bin dir lke
>>> >
>>> > db:create("database", "bin/db.xml")
>>> > Otherwise it does not work.
>>> >
>>> > I do not want to hard code path in the script. Is there a general way
>>> to specify the path,
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Regards
>>> > Martin Lourduswamy
>>>
>>
>>
