----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Starkey <jas@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>; <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:30 AM
Subject: RE: [IB-Architect] What will make InterBase more attractive?


> The rule of thumb used to be that a good database design saturated
> the disk channel while using 100% of the CPU. CPUs are now too fast
> to saturation (assuming decent coding, of course). Now the goal
> is to use all available memory.
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> Jim Starkey
>
How does IB decide which page discard from cache when it run low on memory ?
Do you think database caching mechanism can be inproved ?

Paolo Fainelli