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25801: Re: [MUD-Dev] Is database access a bottleneck? Prevayler.

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From: Sean Kelly <sean@ffwd.cx>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:31:52 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
shren wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Josh Goldshlag wrote:
 
>>   4) Max of 5 simultaneous queries.
 
>> It might be suitable, if you made sure to limit the number of
>> queries and were careful about database size.

> I hate little things like this, however.  It so blatantly states,
> "We're going to sell you crippled software and then when it can't
> limp any farther we're going to hope you're locked in."  You know
> that's what they want.  I'm not anti-microsoft, I'm
> anti-crippleware.

The 5 query limit could easily be addressed by coalescing DB obs
into a worker thread (which is the type of thing that's generally
done anyway). At that point, you could concievably have a 5 machine
cluster hanging off the database.  I don't much like crippleware
either, but this is free software marketed by a for-profit company.
I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Sean


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