Re: Questions about bsddb

2007-05-11 Thread sinoodle
Thanks for the suggestion, I do remember reading that, but I don't think that helped much. I found experimenting around with the different settings, that the cache size is where the problem was. I've got it set to 1.5 GB and it's pretty happy at the moment, and the reduction in build time is a fra

Re: Questions about bsddb

2007-05-09 Thread sinoodle
Thanks for the info Nick. I plan on accessing the data in pretty much random order, and once the database is built, it will be read only. At this point Im not too concerned about access times, just getting something to work. I've been messing around with both bt and hash with limited success, which

Questions about bsddb

2007-05-09 Thread sinoodle
Hello, I need to build a large database that has roughly 500,000 keys, and a variable amount of data for each key. The data for each key could range from 100 bytes to megabytes.The data under each will grow with time as the database is being built. Are there some flags I should be setting when op