On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:25 -0500, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > Unfortunately, it's high volume enough that it's no longer possible to > keep these counters in the databases updated in real time. (updates are > to the order of 1000's per second).
I would just use BerkeleyDB for this, which can easilly keep up, rather than messing with threads, but I'm interested in seeing if your threading idea will work well. > * A overseer/manager thread that wakes up once every so often and > updates the MySQL database with the contents of the global shared hash. Rather than doing that, why not just update it from a cleanup handler every time the counter goes up by 10000 or so? Seems much easier to me. - Perrin
