On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgt...@chello.nl> wrote: > > If you want to know what the last thing was that your application was doing, > before it crashed (e.g. at the customers site), you better write every > message immediately to disk.
Yes, I suppose it would depend on your use case whether you wanted to optimize for throughput or for latency to secondary storage. I just know from experience that for high-throughput server applications, writing each message to disk is going to introduce unacceptable context-switching overhead. G -- Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe