Replying to the list, while ZFS(/FreeBSD users) may be in the extreme minority, others may get some benefit from the following links
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 9:22 AM Bridger Dyson-Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 5:35 PM Martin Lourduswamy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I used >> >> db:node-pre(db:text("db", "ae4b577bd9f578556cd")//../..) >> >> delete node db:open-pre("db",333) >> >> to immensely speed the basex access. Thanks for helping me with how to >> get a db:node form basex. >> >> I have one more question. I am using FreeBSD to host BaseX and it is >> stable so for in the testing. Are there any known problems of openjdk8 on >> FreeBSD and baseX. I could not find any issues so far with basex. But I >> read somewhere that openjdk8 on FreeBSD dumps core some time. I think it is >> for specific applications only not for baseX. Just a architectural >> suggestion on picking the best OS to host baseX. >> >> Please let me know when you have some time, >> >> *gasp* there's another one! :) I am using BaseX and FreeBSD, and have > been now for several years, and haven't experienced any problems from the > OpenJDK. > > The only thing I can think to mention is that if you're using ZFS on your > FreeBSD box, you might get some benefit from looking in to > database-specific tuning for the zpool that hosts BaseX's data files. I'm > trying to find some relevant links; when I do I'll share them here. > BSDnow has a synopsis [1] and linked article [2] on tuning ZFS, specifically for MySQL performance, but the general methods may also apply to BaseX. > ( BaseX works excellent on Windows, CentOS and FreeBSD and produced same >> results in all of them. But on windows the disk was close to 100% in >> windows while running my application, centos and FreeBSD has no problems. ) >> >> Thanks, >> Regards >> Martin Lourduswamy >> >> Hopefully these come in useful. > Best, > Bridger > > [1] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2018_06_06-router_on_a_stick [2] https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/05/15/about-zfs-performance/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Christian Grün < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Martin, >>> >>> The behavior of BaseX is similar on Windows and Linux. >>> >>> I would guess you started the application from different directories? >>> With file:current-dir(), you get your current working directory [1]. >>> file:base-dir() points you to the directory in which your XQuery file >>> is stored. >>> >>> Best, >>> Christian >>> >>> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Module#file:current-dir >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:35 PM Martin Lourduswamy >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > I have a query that creates DB >>> > >>> > db:create("database", "db.xml") >>> > >>> > I have put the db.xml in the bin dir. >>> > >>> > This works for unix/Linux, but on windows I need to specifically give >>> bin dir lke >>> > >>> > db:create("database", "bin/db.xml") >>> > Otherwise it does not work. >>> > >>> > I do not want to hard code path in the script. Is there a general way >>> to specify the path, >>> > Thanks, >>> > Regards >>> > Martin Lourduswamy >>> >> >>
