Tim,

Aside: Is your MySQL database running on an ext2 volume or on a ReiserFS volume? I read somewhere that half of SourceForge is now running in Reiser. Is this true?

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 10:00:39 -0700, Tim Perdue wrote:

>The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>> 
>> Will you accept modifications to this if submit'd, to make better use of
>> features that PostgreSQL has to improve performance?  Just downloaded it
>> and am going to look her through, just wondering if it would be a waste of
>> time for me to suggest changes though :)
>
>If you can figure out an algorithm that shows these nested messages more
>efficiently on postgres, then that would be a pretty compelling reason
>to move SourceForge to Postgres instead of MySQL, which is totally
>reaching its limits on our site. Right now, neither database appears
>like it will work, so Oracle is starting to loom on the horizon.
>
>Tim
>
>-- 
>Founder - PHPBuilder.com / Geocrawler.com
>Lead Developer - SourceForge
>VA Linux Systems
>408-542-5723




Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:39:12 -0700
"Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net>
Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres
Randall Parker wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> Aside: Is your MySQL database running on an ext2 volume or on a ReiserFS volume? I read somewhere that half of SourceForge is now running in Reiser. Is this true?

That's ext2. I don't know if "half" of SF.net is running on Reiser, but
some of the biggest, most critical stuff has been for 6-8 months.

Tim

-- 
Founder - PHPBuilder.com / Geocrawler.com
Lead Developer - SourceForge
VA Linux Systems
408-542-5723

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:00:30 -0700
Tim Perdue <tperdue@valinux.com>
Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres