Not in the MS house that I am living in right now :^( On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Ian Struble wrote: > > And just to throw one more wrench into the works. You could load up only > > the most popular data at startup and let the rest of the data get loaded > > on a cache miss. > > > > That is one technique that we have used for some customer session > > servers. It allowed each server to start up in well under a minute > > instead of in 15-30 minutes while pegging the DB. The 15-30 minutes was > > when we were dealing with ~5mil total entries and I would hate to see it > > now that the size of the table has doubled. Now we just need to do some > > batch processing to determine what subset gets loaded at startup. > > You could also just dump the whole thing into a Berkeley DB file every > now and then. > > - Perrin > > >
