Re: [Mldonkey-users] MySQL

[Jorge Nerin]

Falk Hueffner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Databases are optimized for:
>
> * Datasets much larger than memory
> * Atomical commits with rollback
> * Concurrent access
>
> none of which we need in the slightest for mldonkey; therefore, using
> a database seems like a really bad idea to me. It would just bloat the
> system without any gains.
>
>  
Well, I think we need the first one, in fact we need it badly, mldonkey 
it's know to overcommit a lot and get OOM killed frecuently.

The second one could be handy, not needed, but nice to have.

About being concurrent... perhaps you could make a "cluster" of donkeys 
this way without interfering each other (very far future, but 
technically possible with a database)

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Jorge Nerin
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