[rt-users] Purging OLD requests...

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Thursday, October 26, 2000 09:43 -0400, Lawrence Lee 
<llee at mail.ivillage.com> wrote:
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| JOC, what kind of hardware are you running on? (i'm guessing the real
| slowdown would come more from the number of simultaneous transactions
| (users pegging away at the db) rather than the absolute number of
| transcations...)
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SPARC Ultra 5, Solaris 2.6.

MySQL gets severe indigestion if there are too many simultaneous updates. 
I have some serialization in front of the RT mail queues to try to avoid 
this, but I'm hoping to migrate to a different database engine for RT2. 
Aside from that, well, indexes are your friends.

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