Re: [Iamb-dev-internal] streed

[Ken R. <kr...@qx...>]

> > Clearly, it depends on two things: the value of n and the length
> > of time the data is blocked. We'll probably have to do some fine
> > tuning in real life.
> 
> yup yup. right now, its engineered to see if the data needs saved every 10
> seconds. the data will be saved if the queue's modified flag is
> set. otherwise, we dont need to waste the cycles or the io.

Could it be set up so that the data is saved n (default = 10 for
now) seconds after it is changed? In low-traffic lists, that
could be a considerable savings. Would that mess up the cron
job settings, though?

> > More specifically, is it the MySQL DBI, and not another one
> > that we could possibly use? Are there any serious alternatives:
> > free, stable, easily obtained, and standardized?
> 
> its DBI in general. tim and the gang didnt think the core all the way
> through to threading. i am further told that libmysqlclient.a (the
> standard client library to interface to mysql) is ALSO not
> thread-happy. so we're screwed on both fronts.  i suppose we could write a
> thread-happy interface to mysql. oh wait. i really am not that
> high. :) its an idea but so beyond my depth and breadth.

Yeah. Me, too. Wanna learn together? Wait, we are already
going to be doing that with xxx2sgml and sgml2yyy. (I'm
beginning to wonder is we shouldn't just do xxx2xml and
xml2yyy, but that's a whole new list....)

> > I also am interested to see how this works out. Glad to see that
> > you are back at this!
> 
> yeah. its nice to be writing good code in a pretty stressfree situation
> for once :) if i can get my attention span back, we'll be set :)

Your what? :-)

-- Ken