On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote: > > > it's faster to just let it use swap, > > I I/O load hits my server pretty hard. Trying to do anything else while > that's happening is quite painful. :-/ > > Doing it without the heavy I/O load is preferable, even if it takes a > couple of days - it can just trundle away in the background. >
Yeah, but the postgres middle option just puts the nodes in a postgres table and then does selects to find them. If you don't have the RAM to cache the DB table you probably will have a similar i/o load just over a longer period... you might have a better chance of deprioritising and containing that though. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
