I would really like to see expire gone

[Alex Kiernan]

Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> writes:

[...]

> I'm going to fix my berkeley DB build and move the history file which
> is being read from off of the device (and play with directio and
> different block sizes) and try again.
> 

OK, I found a bigger box to try on (dual 1GHz UltraSparc III w/ 8GB of
RAM)

I can insert all 46M articles in the history in 20 minutes (with a
3.95GB cache), unfortunately thats about as far as you could take it
entirely in core as Berkeley DB 4.1.25 is limited to a max of 4GB of
cache AFAICT (even if you build it 64 bit).

The disk write takes a bit longer (its just a single spindle) and
takes another 52 minutes.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc