> On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:21, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> ditto windows.
>>
>> Files cached in memory are slower than reading straight from memory
>> but not nearly enough to justify reserving memory for your use. In
>> other words, your O/S is a machine with years and years of
>> engineering designed b
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:21, Merlin Moncure wrote:
Stuart,
I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our
load
increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast
read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough
RAM
to fit everythin
> Stuart,
>
> > I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our
load
> > increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast
> > read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough
RAM
> > to fit everything into memory. I would like to find out i
Stuart,
> I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our load
> increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast
> read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough RAM
> to fit everything into memory. I would like to find out if I could
>
> If I could get and deploy some SSD (Solid State Disk) devices that
> would make this sort of thing *actually safe,* I'd expect that to be a
> pretty fabulous improvement, at least for write-heavy database
> activity.
Not nearly as much as you would expect. For the price of the SSD and a
SCSI con
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Bishop) writes:
> I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our
> load increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some
> fast read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than
> enough RAM to fit everything into memory. I wou
Stuart Bishop wrote:
I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our load
increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast read
only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough RAM to fit
everything into memory. I would like to find out if I co
I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our load
increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast read
only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough RAM to fit
everything into memory. I would like to find out if I could expect better
perf
