mnesia usage optimisation

Sean Hinde Sean.Hinde@REDACTED
Thu Jul 25 22:16:42 CEST 2002


Luke,

I think the problem is that indexes are built using a linear search
mechanism when you have many items with the same value.

You could get around this by creating a new table wherever you wish to store
more than 1 destination node against a single source node - store the name
of the new table against your source node instead of the actual
destinations, and store all the destinations in the new table.

You would need to do this for both directions much like Ulf's suggestion. It
should be possible within a couple of reads to get whatever data you want..

I'd have a go at making it but I have a 2 hour drive ahead of me and it's
already 9-15pm (excuses, I know!)

You would run out of mnesia/ets tables eventually..

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Gorrie [mailto:luke@REDACTED]
> Sent: 25 July 2002 18:59
> To: Ulf Wiger
> Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Re: mnesia usage optimisation
> 
> 
> Ulf Wiger <etxuwig@REDACTED> writes:
> 
> > You could perhaps try using two ordered sets:
> 
> Nearly works :-)
> 
> In the start of the transaction, all operations are very fast, even if
> the table is already big. But as a large transaction proceeds, the
> 'match' operations get slower. It looks like it goes O(N)ish on the
> number of table updates. My access pattern is basically a chain of
> read-write-read-write..
> 
> I'm guessing it's less efficient to match on the data structure for
> pre-committed values?
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> I'm probably overdoing my Mnesia usage really :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Luke
> 



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