[CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk
Ed Heron
Ed at Heron-ent.com
Fri Jan 22 23:55:44 UTC 2016
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 17:39 -0600, NightLightHosts Admin wrote:
> Ed Heron <Ed at heron-ent.com> wrote:
> > Absolutely, I'll share my real world results. I'm happy that I'm not
> > the only person interested in the technique. I'm a little disappointed
> > somebody isn't telling me there is a much simpler method of putting my
> > database in RAM. The technique is only useful in a situation where the
> > server has gobs of RAM so it might only apply to a small subset of users
> > but it might speed up database access. And since it is being done by
> > the virtual host, the guest doesn't need to know anything about it.
> > This keeps guest complexity down. Also, I don't have as much Windows
> > knowledge as I have Linux knowledge so it was easier for me to implement
> > under Linux.
>
>
> See,
>
> This is where I get confused again, which type of database is it?
It is a Customer Relationship Management database running under
InterBase on Microsoft Windows Server. However, because the database
server is a virtual machine, it doesn't matter. The technique could be
useful for speeding up any disk-centric activity.
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