Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM

* Scott Marlowe:

> And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process
> opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users.  This means
> that things like virus scanners can cause odd, unpredictable failures
> of your database.

I think most of them open the file in shared/backup mode.  The only
lock that is created by that guards deletion and renaming.  It can
still lead to obscure failures, but it's not a wholly-eclusive lock.

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