[REBOL] Re: [DEV] dbms3.r 02
From: chalz:earthlink at: 21-Jan-2002 0:25
A system I'm sure not many of you are very familiar with - MOO - has
similar issues. Basically, it's another form of a MUD (multi-user
dungeons/domains/etc - text-based multi-user gaming environment) which deals
more with programming than gaming. In any event, the entire database file -
which includes all code, 'rooms', players, etc - is loaded into memory at
boot. The admin defines a certain 'checkpoint interval', say 3600 seconds
(1 hour), after which a copy of the database is actually made in RAM, but
locked (the primary still runs), and is written to disk (usually a
file.db.new). It's not always perfect (of course). But, that's how they
deal with it (granted the base system is probably around a decade old..).
Depending upon system volatility and amount of data transfer and database
size, you would need to alter the saving times, or even break the db into
multiple files with a single prime 'index', so to speak, to keep in RAM.
Err, course, these are comments from someone who's never done any actual DB
coding.. *blushes* Just seem like semi-obvious solutions.
