On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>
> Startup delay isn't much of a problem, because the Durus server will
> be started up on system boot.  I wonder if you could pickle the
> dictionary into a file and read it back on startup instead of
> assembling it every time?  Hmm... seems tricky, because you don't want
> to write out the pickled version every time a change is committed.

Tricky, small benefit, huge cost of failure.

>
>> If it were me, I'd buy faster/bigger io/memory
>> before thinking about anything fancier than FileStorage.
>
> That's not really an option in this case because this isn't an
> application running on one server that's under our control; it would
>

Oh.  I see.

> be used on every machine we sell, and putting in more memory or faster
> disks into every box would cut into profit margins.
>
> Anyway, I'll see how long a storage with 10 or 15 models takes to
> start, and decide if anything needs to be done immediately.  Probably

I'll be interested to hear the results of your experiment.