Re: The old raw devices chestnut.

From: Enor Mouspenis <enormouspenis_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:24:31 +0100
Message-ID: <c5lrdf$36n06$1@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm_at_mail.com> wrote in message
> news:c5ksg3$2p91m$1_at_ID-79573.news.uni-berlin.de...

>> Further (with Informix, once again) the engine can use KAIO, and with the
>> architecture of Informix, this can lead to further significant

> improvements.

>> It all adds up. Why do you think F1 now make their pedals out of carbon
>> fibre? And they *still* drill 'em out for extra lightness. An Informix
>> engine using raw with KAIO and a decent layout of spaces on the disk can
>> feel very spiffy indeed even compared to one that merely drops KAIO and

> raw.
>
> A dangerous analogy, the formula 1 one. An F1 Car is made to last a
> weekend - used to be a race - and to be rebuilt after that. This is not a
> desirable* thing in a database. Robustness and reliability are important
> as well as performance - probably more so.

I am thinking extra performance for no loss relaibility is also good, no? KAIO not make database less relaible.

--
Enor

Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 06:24:31 CDT