[Labs-l] Accessing the databases from labs - A comparison with the toolserver

[Daniel Kinzler]

Am 16.07.2013 21:00, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:
> On 07/16/2013 01:12 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
>> Also, it proved quite useful to have a separate db server for slow, long running
>> queries vs. quick queries from web based tools.
> 
> A point to remember is that our replicas do not rely on spinning rust;
> this does not present the same performance problems nor the same use
> profile.  (And, indeed, doesn't have the same MTBF either).
> 
> I very much doubt there is a significant gain to be had from segregating
> classes of queries in our environment (owing to the lack of seek latency
> during disjoint access to storage) and given our considerably more
> robust replication strategy, I don't expect reliability to be an issue.

Let's hope your are right, then.

-- daniel