Hi Greg, On 2/6/08 7:56 AM, "Greg Smith" <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I'm loading a TB file, odds are good I can split that into 4 or more > vertical pieces (say rows 1-25%, 25-50%, 50-75%, 75-100%), start 4 loaders > at once, and get way more than 1 disk worth of throughput reading. You > have to play with the exact number because if you push the split too far > you introduce seek slowdown instead of improvements, but that's the basic > design I'd like to see one day. It's not parallel loading that's useful > for the cases I'm thinking about until something like this comes around. Just load 4 relfiles. You have to be able to handle partial relfiles, which changes the storage mgmt a bit, but the benefits are easier to achieve. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly