Telecom & Mnesia - Call Detail Record Collection

[Martin J. Logan]

Hello All,
    I am working for a small telephony company here in the States. The only
method that we have for billing our customers is via call detail records. The
system that we are using now is a rather poor one. My boss and I propose that
we can revolutionize the way that we do this by employing erlang and mnesia.
All of my past projects with it have been extremly succesfull. I have started
running some preliminary stress/load tests with mnesia and I am encountering a
few problems. Mnesia really seems to slow down at 120,000 small records stored
as disk_only_copies and at 300,000 small records stored as ram_copies.  The
requirements for this project could be in excess of 8 gig of data storage with
500,000 records comming in on a daily basis. I have always thought of mnesia
as a real time db for storing smaller amounts of data. I would like to build
this cdr collection and reporting system entirly in erlang though and remove
the need for the sql db if possible. The more erlang the better off we all
are.
The quiestions I have are:

1. Has anyone stored such a vast amount of data in mnesia? I could not find
much on the list.
2. How does mnesia preform under large loads?  I need to do reporting on the
data.
3. What are the most effective mnesia configurations for maxing out its data
storage potential? What is its potential?
3. Has anyone out there used mnesia/erts/otp for call detail record
collection? If so can you give me any recomendations
    for my project?

                    Thank you for any help in this matter,
                    Martin.