On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:57:17 -0700, Gurpreet Singh wrote: > Thanks for all the information Holger. > > Will do the jvm updates, kernel updates will be slow to come by. I see > that with disk access mode standard, the performance is stable and better > than in mmap mode, so i will probably stick to that.
Please let us know how things work out. > Are you suggesting i try out mongodb? Uhm, no. :) I meant that it also uses mmap exclusively (!), and consequently can also have pretty bad/irregular performance when the (active) data set grows much larger than RAM. To be fair, that is a pretty hard problem in general. -h