Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 02:59:05 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, scrappy@hub.org, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update Message-ID: <199803301059.CAA08389@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:31:30 %2B0200." <19980330123130.39177@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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And if people do a decent job they may be able to sell the project, complete with OS and computer 8) Have Fun, Amancio > On 1998-03-29 13:57:30 -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > We have been playing with the idea of normalizing the archive into an > > RDBMS. Some of the benefits are: > > > > * no need to update the threads database. It will always be updated. > > * Users can create, easily, their own thread logic with no impact on > > system performance. > > * Searching on normalized fields are many times faster, and much less > > costly in system resources. > > Some figures ... > > The FreeBSD mailing list archive is 620MB large. There are currently > 270,000 messages. The archive grow with 100,000 messages/year. > > If you plan to use a real SQL database, you should consider at least > 500,000 data sets, better 1 million. You need 2GB for the raw E-Mails > and 2-4GB for the index. I don't know if there are free available > databases which can handle this large data. > > That was the hardware part. You must hire a database expert, a Web > designer and a cgi script programmer. All people should be willing to work > for at least 2-3 years on this project. This is not an easy task. > > > A full update of the thread database took 6 min on hub (Pentium Pro), > thats 100MB/min ;-) An update for the last week took 3-6 seconds. > > -- > Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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