On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 14:05, Perrin Harkins wrote: > I thought some of you might be interested in this thread from Perlmonks.org: > http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=243899 > > I benched BerkeleyDB against multiple files for medium-sized documents, > and the results were that Berkeley was faster for writes and slower for > reads.
Just a little update on this: At a suggestion from Aaron Ross, I adjusted the Cachesize parameter for BerkeleyDB, which brought it up to par with the file system for reads on my machine. It seems to work even better on slower machines. See the URL above for details. - Perrin
