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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:12:56 PST8PDT
Ben Greear<greear#cyberhighway,net> wrote:
> The crucial part you are missing here, is how to do the snapshot?
> You still have to pass (copy) the data, either through a pipe or
> socket or something. It would probably be about as quick to just
> write it to disk... Of course, I could be wrong...
In the uniw world the standard approach would be either to use streams
(not supported by Linux), or to use a shared memory ring buffer. Both
work. Each has it advantages. The other standard forms of IPC
(socketc, messages etc) are not terribly fast.
The underlieing reason and advantage for using a seperate thread or
process to do your DB backups is performance. Your main
thread/application does not have to halt or impede its service in
order to do the backup. In the case of seperate processes, this is
done by having the backup_process buffer the data, taking it as fast
as the main process can supply it in times of low-load, and waiting
about cheaply tapping its virtual foot when load it high. For
threads, careful control of thread priorities and blocking controls on
the thread handle this. In both cases the main interface to the
application is no longer dependant on the rate or overhead of the disk
IO, and (ideally) is not slowed by the rate that the data is flowing
to disk.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00004" HREF="msg00004.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Roleplaying</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 22:26 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00002" HREF="msg00002.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 19:41 GMT
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J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 20:48 GMT
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J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 22:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00006" HREF="msg00006.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 22:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00000" HREF="msg00000.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 02:19 GMT
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