On 2006-06-21 Adam Skutt wrote: > Christian Hammers wrote: > > Normal servers have most of their databases > > and web content in RAM anyway as RAM is cheap nowadays > 2TB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it. > > Hell, 32GB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it. > > "Normal" for a database spans quite a range, so be careful before you > generalize.
The original poster said something about a small webserver and "sql once he learned it" :) Besides for a DB with >4GB the filesystem performance is not very relevant either as you usually don't create/delete/move files here but only work inside (big) tablespace files and thus only affected by disk drive and bus performance. bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]