On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok, I only have one segment right now, so I've got one of each of these: >> >> .tis file: 730MB >> .frq files: 9KB >> .prx file: 26KB > > That's pretty much impossible (way too small). Double check those numbers.
I don't know where I got the above numbers. Sorry. Here are the real numbers: .tis file: 730MB .frq files: 10.1 GB .prx file: 43.2 GB Now keeping all *that* in RAM, that sounds like a challenge. > [...] >> I have to admit I don't know that much about OS disk caching. Can I >> more or less pretend that the OS uses a least recently used (LRU) >> algorithm? > > Pretty much. > How much physical RAM do you have? 4GB! It seems like our hardware budget estimate of $0 ("I know, let's use the existing server!") may have been a little optimistic. =)