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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:41:35 -0600</LI>
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Cynbe ru Taren said:
> I think that this problem (storage of objects that are being hoarded or
> otherwise stored away, outside of common day-to-day usage) can be solved
on
> the technology side of things.
Design IS technology. :) Meaning, virtually every problem associated with
mud design is a design issue as well as a technology issue, and vice versa.
> This is surely a problem for a system that
> attempts to load the entire DB into memory. A disk-based system wouldn't
> have this problem.
Sure it would. It just has different consequences. Any way you slice it, it
is to an admin's advantage to minimize footprint in memory and on disk.
> A log-structured would appear to be potentially beneficial here as only
> changes would need to be saved, making incremental backups much easier.
> That introduces a few extra issues: collapsing the logs, etc, but those
are
> all well researched. This would may not be a good solution for all of the
> database needs as the log files could end up being far larger than the
usual
> DB files, if the objects were involved in frequent state changes.
There's also speed issues.
> Another potential solution might be to use separate databases for varying
> types of classes of objects. In this way, you can store things like homes
> in a separate DB which has a set of policies aimed at providing a more
> optimal storage strategy.
Yep.
-Raph
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00616" HREF="msg00616.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Bruce Mitchener, Jr. <a href="mailto:bruce#puremagic,com">bruce#puremagic,com</a>, Thu 16 Dec 1999, 23:35 GMT
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Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 00:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00623" HREF="msg00623.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Ilya, Game Commandos <a href="mailto:Ilya#gamecommandos,com">Ilya#gamecommandos,com</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 00:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00628" HREF="msg00628.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
cg <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 01:01 GMT
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Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 01:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00634" HREF="msg00634.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
cg <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 04:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00510" HREF="msg00510.html">[MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Artificial Language for MUD programmers</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Fri 26 Nov 1999, 19:06 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00503" HREF="msg00503.html">[MUD-Dev] volunteerism on muds (fwd)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</a>, Thu 25 Nov 1999, 01:47 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00502" HREF="msg00502.html">[MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</a>, Thu 25 Nov 1999, 00:51 GMT
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