I am working in a load balanced /clustered environment. However, there is only one db server.

Because I like to put my data where it is safe(ish) I tend to put lots of stuff in db tables, since that is where the data is anyway...

This of course defeats clustering, because it makes the db machine (NFS mounted) the bottleneck.

SO...

I'm looking into trying to cluster the databases - that is to use multiple cheap dbs to handle some of the load. Anyone have any tips about how to go abt doing that? I'll need an algorithim to sync the db's somehow, but I'd love to get perhaps a different view on the problem...
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In reply to database pooling by chorg

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