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by pbbakkum 4937 days ago
Ahh, I see. Why do you guys prefer that configuration? Space/resources, reliability?
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mlmilleratmit 4937 days ago
Space/resources was certainly a concern in this case. A disk-based solution with predictable latencies enables storage of far more data than something that requires holding the working set in RAM.
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kapilvt 4937 days ago
probably large amounts of writes.
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