On 28 Aug 2015, at 3:15am, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote: > * Database is written into memory > [...] > How can I understand why the slowdown occurs? Especially, why the slowdown in > so "sharp"?
Your computer has a certain amount of free memory. Once your database is bigger than that size the computer has to keep moving parts of the database into storage so it has room for the new data. I will guess that if you got more RAM in your computer you would have faster operations for longer. Simon.