On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Magnus Manske wrote:

Just how much RAM does the wikipedia server have?

2 gigs. Our databases collectively are somewhat larger than this and increasing.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5802/fastdb.html

Hmm. No php interface and doesn't speak normal SQL; performance known to reduce dramatically when not all data fits in memory.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)