RE: [Firebird-devel] RE: I could use your help...

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fir...@li...
> [mailto:fir...@li...]On Behalf Of Leyne,
> Sean
> Sent: Lunes 26 de Febrero de 2001 10:03
>
> It will be a little while yet, before Mike and I will have a patch
> ready, Mike is currently weeding (literally) his way

Well, anybody wanting to read the source will have to weed his/her own way
eventually.
;-)


> through some issues
> related to 32kb pages, once he's done that and we've done some basic
> testing we'll submit a patch with all the changes.

	Sorry for being the bad bird, but can you or Mike explain the importance of
32KB pages? Is there any proven fact that demonstrates 32KB pages are going
to boost performance in some way? Disk cluster size, disk controller, OS
cache, OS logical cluster size, application behavior and the like are all
factors that come into play. Also, the more memory IB caches, the more
memory it needs to swap when it reaches the number of database buffer pages
defined and it needs to load other pages. Would 32KB pages have a positive
effect on tables with long records, for example those that use fields of
type varchar(300) or bigger?

C.