RE: 2.1.17 performance issues

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xoror@infuse.org [mailto:xoror@infuse.org]

> This is interesting. BDB stores al values in tuples of
> ("key","value"). in
> essential these are index lookups that should be fast. An extra
> environnement cache wouldn't be nessecary right ? The cache
> lookups are
> also similar to index loookups (get entry fron page given key). If the
> whole cache was stored in memory then i could understand why this is
> faster, But bdb stores this file by defualt on disk....
>
> i'm still trying to answer this question, uhm anyone got an idea ?

Read the SleepyCat BDB documentation. There's much more involved than a
simple "index lookup" and it's beyond the scope of this mailing list to teach
you how databases work.

  -- Howard Chu
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