Re: [Exist-open] Hardware requirements

[Andrew N. <and...@vi...>]

Wolfgang, do you have any suggestions for this?

Michael Beddow wrote:

 >Andrew Nagy wrote: Are there any hardware requirements for eXist?
 >>
 >> I was reading the docs and see that the index is in a b tree 
structure which resides in memory correct?
 >> If I have over a million records, does anyone have any suggestions 
for memory requirements?
 >> Should we be looking in the 10s of GB for memory?
 >>
 >> What is stored in this b tree?  How much space does it need?
 >>
 >> Thanks
 >> Andrew

>I think this is one best fielded by Wolfgang once he returns from a
>well-deserved break, but the implementation of indexing has evolved a lot
>since the earliest descriptions werer written, and I have the impression
>that there are now various paging mechanisms in place which mean that there
>is no need for physical memory sufficient to hold the entire index at once.
>Otherwise I can't see how some of the applications which I know are running
>on eXist could operate within the physical address space of the hardware
>affordable by low-to-medium-budget projects.
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>Michael Beddow
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