On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:16:02 -0400 "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We also had problems with a high end AIX system and we got no help > from IBM. They expected you to put Oracle on and if you used > anything else you were on your own. Urk, I thought IBM were supposedly Linux sycophants thesedays... > We had exactly the same issue. > We expected to get an order of magnitude improvement and instead the > app bogged down. That's kind of encouraging, I suppose - that it might not be something mind-bogglingly stupid I'm doing. > It also got worse over time. We had to reboot every > night to get anything out of it. Needless to say, they got their > system back. <nod> > That's Seneca. Oops - meant to check the spelling before I sent that =) > We found that our money was better spent on multiple servers running > NetBSD with a home grown multi-master replication system. Need more > power? Just add more servers. Aye, I originally suggested multiple servers, but was talked round to one giant db so that our devels didn't have to rewrite code to deal with read/write + read-only db handles... Cheers, Gavin.
