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Lloyd Parkes (Lloyd.Parkes@vuw.ac.nz)
Fri, 03 Jan 1997 12:44:44 +1300 

Message-Id: <199701022344.MAA24456@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] 2.0B1 server performance 
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 12:44:44 +1300
From: Lloyd Parkes <Lloyd.Parkes@vuw.ac.nz>

> Lloyd> My conclusion is that if you don't have enough memory for
> Lloyd> mSQL, then you are going to pay a large performance penalty...

> Thats _not_ an mSQL problem, any database that uses any significant
> amount of data needs alot of memory to work quickly.

I quite agree. My original message was meant to be an objective comment on
some emperical evidence. I have since shutdown some memory intensive
applications on my SPARCstation (like netscape), and mSQL runs rather well
now. This university's student records are held in an Oracle database. The
machine running Oracle has half a gig of memory. This is the first time anyone
on campus has seen Oracle run well. 

-- 
Lloyd Parkes, Postmaster and Hostmaster for Victoria University's
Information Technology Services. ITS seems to undergoing its third
review in twelve months. Staff morale? What morale? What staff?

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