Gads, I'm out of it today.  Thanks, *Bryan*, not Mike...

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David Van Couvering <da...@vancouvering.com
> wrote:

> Thanks, Mike
>
> I am doing some of that, and am looking into doing more of that.
>
> But it's more than possible that I'll have a lot of open, *active*
> databases.
>
> We're talking a lot of data, potentially 10s of GB of BLOBs.  I was
> concerned a single Derby DB would not be able to handle this well, so I
> asplit this up into multiple databases.  This also gives me future
> flexibility to spread the databases across different disks to avoid
> contention.
>
> But if you think this can be managed fine in a single database, well, I
> could be convinced to go that way... :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Bryan Pendleton <
> bpendleton.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.  Could you point me to a page, or just tell me, what
>>> configuration settings I can tweak to reduce the overall memory
>>> footprint of a booted Derby database.  Losing performance is pretty much
>>> OK, this is not a time-critical part of our code, but I have a lot of
>>> databases open and it's impacting memory footprint pretty significantly.
>>>
>>
>> If you can manage the performance hit, I think the best way to keep
>> a lid on the overall resource usage is to change your approach, and *not*
>> keep a lot of databases open, but rather close each database when it's
>> not in use, and then re-open it upon demand.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> bryan
>>
>>
>
>
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