Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:21:53PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>
> GS> Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> writes:

> GS> Oh, it's a really small database. That helps a lot with the backup
> GS> problems of 24x7 operation. Still I would be interested.
>
> Well, perhaps, but it is big enough and pounded on enough
> (read/insert/update very often) that it saturates the disk.  I have
> memory to spare according to the system stats.

Well, was it really a 27 MB database, or it was a typo and you meant 27
GB?  The latter doesn't fit in my "really small database" category...

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