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Re: (ITS#3851) Berkeley DB Scalability Patch




--On Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:30 AM -0400 Jong-Hyuk 
<jongchoi@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> Quanah,
> Do you also have a result without "-q" option ?

Hi Jong,

I do not have a result without the -q option for this particular test. 
However, like I've noted previously, I see the same results you do for your 
patch whenever I keep the number of indices low, and that is with the -q 
option.  I can't see any reason why -q would affect BDB's internal memory 
allocation, and since I'm only getting differences from your results by 
increasing the indexing, I seriously doubt -q is affecting it.  Given that 
the usefulness of -q has been quite proven in a large number of 
environments (10k dbs, 50 million entry dbs, all with varying numbers of 
indices) I don't have much incentive to not use it, either.

If I can continue to have access to the borrowed linux box I'm using for 
these tests, I may set up one without -q, although I really doubt the end 
result will change, and it may take several weeks to finish each of them, 
because I'll be losing the known performance boost -q offers.


BTW, current progress with your patch:

root:/tmp/ldif# time slapadd -q -l 2M-peons.ldif
[###################################     ] ( 89%) 01w04d  1788432 obj

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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