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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Bernard De Cuyper <bmcuyper@etro1.vub.ac.be>
Cc: postgres-arch@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Speeding up Postgres 4.2
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 03:25:14 -0800
Message-ID: <199411171125.DAA06673@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9411171117.AA04308@etro6.vub.ac.be>

bmcuyper@etro1.vub.ac.be (Bernard De Cuyper) writes:
> Thanks a lot, you should ask the guy to come back form illustra, and
> put this feature as standart, it is really working. It give the same
> impression that the first step on the moon. I use "main memory"
> mapping on Sun/Solaris2.3 and I plan to make some extra cache
> relations but it seems also interesting for more complex tasks to
> support labelling in images.

just as long as you know that this is like putting files on a memory
fs or sunos tmpfs -- if you reboot the machine, the main memory data
goes away..

(i've been of the opinion that nvram boards are a better answer for the
disk-write latency problem.. but of course those cost thousands of
dollars..)
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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