[Iamb-dev-internal] streed

[Matt C. <su...@qx...>]

the decision i've made for the internals of the stree daemon is to store
the strees in an internal hash ref. then every n seconds a snapshot of
that internal queue will be taken and written to the
database. modification of the hash should be fast enough to avoid data
collisions (extensive testing will verify this). i'm probably going to
need another process to farm off the database saving too. DBI blocks IO
and as such, while DBI is doing a insert or whatever, the whole server has
to sit and spin until the IO is done. very silly and very nasty. and if we
plan on this being used in a high traffic situation, that sort of blocking
could be very ugly indeed. any thoughts folks?

m.