On Jul 2, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Billy Newsom wrote:
If you aren't familiar with the Matt Simerson mysql patch, it was born
because there can be major lookup problems with the cdb file,
especially using POP before SMTP. Imagine the POP server populating
the text file (and re-compiling the CDB) 10 times per second. Now,
imagine 20 queries per second on the CDB file, that in some cases is
in the middle of a file alteration. The disk, in cases like this,
hardly ever gets to writing the file from a kernel buffer, so what you
are seeing is memory accesses on this file most of the time. There
will simply be cases where the CDB file gets hammered too hard and
corrupted. It will need attention by the admin during peak hours.
If I recall the thread though, the server in question is NOT set up for
POP before SMTP. So, the cdb file is static and does not get updated.
If it has 5 or so entries for the servers that will feed it, I would
have to agree that a cdb lookup would to a static file of 5 entries
would be more efficient than a MySQL query (which has to be parsed by
the MySQL server) for the same lookup.
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