On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:30:18PM -0500, Justin wrote:
> 
> Typically, in a database backed website with a very high percentage
> of selects to inserts, people do not "expect" update operations
> (posts and so on) to complete very fast. But they do "expect" page
> requests to be very fast.. the default behaviour does not seem to
> meet this objective?

Correct.

If you always blindly give selects priority, it is possible (on a busy
site) for inserts to take a very long time to complete.

Jeremy
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