[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] donating read-only api-mirrors
Stefan de Konink
stefan at konink.de
Sun Feb 8 09:15:38 GMT 2009
Matthias Julius wrote:
> Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> writes:
>
>> Matthias Julius wrote:
>>> Why would storing of the data be such a big overhead? Especially
>>> comparing to storing everything in (limited) memory? I think compared
>>> to all the other processing the API is doing writing the data to disk
>>> and then reading it again would not be so significant.
>> Sadly that is very significant because it becomes a serial process, thus
>> introduces a bottleneck.
>
> Why a bottleneck. I didn't think this would require too many
> recources. Of course it will delay the response to the client, but I
> don't think this should be a huge problem.
You start to write with ~300 processes at the same time contiguously to
the disk. What possibly could go wrong?
Stefan
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