Mnemosyne

[Sean Hinde]

I'm not sure about this problem but we have had problems with mnesmosyne
queries permanently hanging and causing the system massive load. We have
replaced all occurences with match_object etc until it is sorted out.

I guess the much rumoured ets:select mechanism is what is required to turn
mnemosyne into somethng a little more optimal?

In R8?

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hakan Stenholm [mailto:etxhste@REDACTED]
> Sent: 23 March 2001 16:34
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Mnemosyne
> 
> 
> Acording to
> http://avweb.etxb.ericsson.se/~etxblau/ErlangCosts.html:
> 
> "Each mnemosyne query creates a temporary process. In the current
> Mnemosyne implementation the temporary process
> can for complex queries grow very very large, and even force 
> the runtime
> system to start swapping memory to disk.
> Therefore, don't use Mnemosyne in cases where you easily can hardcode
> the queries, and if you use Mnemosyne - always
> check that the execution time and memory consumed for complex queries,
> and for serches on large tables, is within reasonable limits."
> 
> this was true in 1997, but is it still true ? - does it still 
> use large
> amounts of memory (many other things mentioned on this
> page are no longer relevant) ?
> 



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