Unused index in mnesia table

[Goran Bage]

Hello,

We found a problem with mnesia tables with an index that is unused.
Loading a moderately sized table (40.000 entries) took forever
(5-10 min). It turns out that the loading time grows fast with the
table size (quadratic?) if an index is unused. To check it out I
wrote the attached module and tested loading tables of different
sizes, this is what I got just running each case once.
  N      Time
100     6
1000    62
10000   9878
20000   49939
50000   328575

Removing the unused index solved the problem. The reason I added an
unused index was that we will use it later on, so that is what you
get for trying to think ahead :-)

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-- Goran
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  Goran Bage,          MobileArts,     www.mobilearts.se
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