[Asterisk-Dev] RE: MYSQL application

[Domjan Attila]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:15, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 04:43, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > On Monday 02 August 2004 21:46, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > > ODBC is horribly inefficient.  I wouldn't go near it.  Perhaps a
> > > more generic interface would be better.  Something like the
> > > following:
> > 
> > How hard will even a busy 8-PRI box hit the DB?  I can't imagine ODBC being 
> > less efficient than accessing a large flat file!  I will come forward right 
> > now and say I don't have any hard numbers myself (hence my reason for 
> > asking),
> 
> Who would access a large flat file anyways. Dialplans are all stored in
> memory and only read in at startup or reload times. I dare you to find
> any number saying that an access to an external process running any SQL
> interpreter to be faster than a memory lookup in the original calling
> processes memory space.

And if you have 50000+ lines in extensions.conf u will wait minutes for
reload and use lot of memory...