Database is on tmpfs and periodically snapshotted to SSD. There are
bottlenecks upstream of sqlite that we can see in traces.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:36 AM Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Peter da Silva <res...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have an existing application that's pushing the limit
>
> If the limit is in hardware, shards won’t help.
>
> For example, a SQLite DB on a 7200 RPM spinning disk is limited to about
> 60 transactions per second under the stock SQLite fsync logic, since each
> takes 2 revolutions to commit.  (One to write to the journal, and one to
> commit the journal entry.)  Writes to multiple shards only get to share a
> platter rotation if there is no seek between writes.
>
> The limits are higher for SSDs, but there’s still a low limit on the
> number of parallel writes.
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