When I loaded GigaBytes of XMLs into mysql database with PHP script, I was thinking about PHP alternatives. Why do I need that ? 1. PHP is slow – I’m speaking about area of data processing and implementation of algorithms 2. No good cli debugger – I’m just tired of debugging with ‘echo’ and ‘var_dump’ [...]
MyISAM mmap feature (5.1)
May 26, 2006 By 10 Comments
As you know MyISAM does not cache data, only indexes. MyISAM assumes OS cache is good enough and uses pread/pwrite system calls for reading/writing datafiles. However OS is not always good in this task, my benchmarks show Linux/Solaris aren’t scalable on intensive pread calls (I believe the same for Windows, but I did not test [...]
