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- From: carsmax!carsmax!bryan@uceng.uc.edu (Bryan Klopfenstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Online Performance Degradation
- Message-ID: <9441@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 22:33:08 GMT
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- Reply-To: carsmax!carsmax!bryan@uceng.uc.edu (Bryan Klopfenstein)
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- andrew.shaw says:
- > Elapsed minutes: 1 2 3 ... 10 ... 35 ... 50
- > # of transaction: 220 210 200 150 100 50
- >
- > If you plot the number of transactions possible against elapsed time you get
- > what looks like a log N graph, ie plotted on log paper you get a downward
- > sloping straight line. I should point out that since we are doing adds,
- > the elapsed time reflects the database getting continuously larger, albeit
- > at a slowing rate.
-
- You are doing adds. It's pretty safe to assume that you have indexes on
- the table you are adding to.
-
- Informix must rebuild the indexes after each add to ensure that each index
- is in order. The larger the table, the longer it takes to rebuild an index
- because there are more entries that must be searched for the spot to insert
- the new row.
-
- I'm sure a more technical answer will arrive if you need it...
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