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[Mike D.]

> Don't use Mysql. if you ever have had to deal with it in a production
> environment that works it over, you will know that as it reaches it's
> limits, it starts a death spiral that is very difficult to recover from.
> For our software on a dual P3 866 with a gig of ram, the limit was
> around 1.5 queries a second fairly mixed update, inserts, and selects.
> Total file size of the database was under 200meg, and was fully cached
> so even though we had hardware raid 5 across 4 10K rpm ultra160 drives,
> it shouldn't have mattered for the selects.

Wow!  I thought it was just me.  I actually went through the quite
painfull migration process from mysql to postgresql in order to
"recover" from mysql's death spiral.  Ouch!

Good advice.

Mike Diehl