hi Puneet and Martin, On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:27 +0100, Martin Jenkins wrote: > File system cache and plenty of RAM? >
It is meant to run on an end user system (eg. Pentium 4 1GB RAM). If you mean Swap space as file system cache, it is also limited, may be 2GB. Puneet Kishor > you haven't provided any further details about the data itself so I > would venture to say -- get a computer with gobs of RAM (the new Mac > Pro 8-cores can accomodate 16 GB), and use a memory based hash. Query > away. Each node of the data structure will contain only very little data (A structure sizing 70 bytes and the key field would be of size maximum of 20 bytes). (I will see, what is memory based hash) Thanks and Regards, Lloyd ______________________________________ Scanned and protected by Email scanner ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
