| From: | "Daniel R(dot) Anderson" <dan(at)mathjunkies(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | gearond(at)cvc(dot)net, Guillaume Houssay <ghoussay(at)noos(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: configuration according to the database |
| Date: | 2003-03-22 02:49:03 |
| Message-ID: | 1048301344.8171.17.camel@ny-chicagostreet2c-110.buf.adelphia.net |
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<snip>
> > If you are looking for speed, I would make the whole thing as arrays in memory
> > in C++, and just do backups to the database on a regular basis.
>
> You'd suggest storing "12 to 15GB" of data in main memory on an x86
> machine with 4GB of RAM?
</snip>
If I remember correctly, Sparc based computers can hold insane amounts
of memory. They're insanely expensive though; even the decade old ones
on e-bay. I don't suppose it's possible to RAID (or is it Beowolf?)
enough computers together to get a giant RAM Disk?
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Daniel R. Anderson
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