[nycbug-talk] Monitoring programs

Marc Spitzer mspitzer
Sun Aug 21 00:12:45 EDT 2005


On 8/20/05, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> 
> > On 8/20/05, Francisco Reyes <lists at natserv.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> >>
> >> Today is "learn mysql" day, but plan tomorrow to take a look at the
> >> mentioned packages.. although I am tempted to just capture the
> >> output of
> >> df, du and "w" for now and dump it into a PostgreSQL database for
> >> now..
> >>
> >
> > If you know postgres, why play with mysql?
> 
> Uh yeah.  I've had more bad experiences this month with MySQL than
> anyone should ever have with a RDBMS.  These things are supposed to
> be robust and reliable, MySQL is neither.  Granted, we're doing ~150
> queries/sec and have > 4GB data in there, but still.  Stay away if
> you can!

what is the select vs insert ratio?  guess is fine, just curious.

marc

> 
> -bob
> 
>




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