Re: Super-fast Hardware for INFORMIX/XENIX

In <1341@quirm.terminus.ericsson.se> satish@terminus.ericsson.se (Satish Popat) writes: >Some information on the databse itself. The total size of the databse is >approximately 40MB, the largest table being 10MB. The row size vary from 40 >bytes to 800 bytes. The update/inserts to the tables can occur from screen If this was a Macintosh, I'd say this is perfect for a RAM disk with write-behind backing store. But then, Informix probably don't even have any products for the Mac. However, can't you do the same thing under XENIX? The problem would be with committed transactions written to RAM disk but not to disk coupled with a systems failure. There are two solutions: an UPS (should be available on any database server!) or something akin to "Presto" for NFS on Suns (battery-backed write-behind RAM cache for secure disk writes) -- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe -- Clearly, most humans are not rational beings; they are rationalizing beings. -- Mel Walker