So you're asking about how to store something along the line of perlmonks' chatterbox messages? In that case, I wouldn't even bother with writing something that transient to disk. The amount of content would likely be small enough to use shared memory for it, or, if that gets to be too much of a problem, you could use an in-memory filesystem (such as linux's tmpfs; I don't know if freebsd has an equivalent) with either flat files or a temporary database that gets created on server startup. If you go with flat files, remember mbox and maildir: You'll get better performance (especially on deletes) by chunking the messages into multiple files (say 1/message or 1/minute of messages) instead of using one big file for everything.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: arrays in database by dsheroh
in thread arrays in database by dev2000

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