On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christopher Petrilli wrote:
One thing I've noticed is that if I turn of synchronous, the filesystem slowly slows down, which is fun, but it doesn't do so enough that it's a major issue.
I'm using the APSW wrapper for Python, which is basically a very thin wrapper over the basic API, and does nothing special, so I'm 99% sure it's not that. You'll notice in the web page that performance seems to change radically at several points.
sounds like a classic case of the GC is kicking in. i see the same thing in ruby, where disabling the GC drastically increases performance - though this this is not always possible i realize.
regards.
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