[Opensim-dev] Proposed additional db fields

[Sean Dague]

Alan M Webb wrote:
> Maybe the last accessed requirement could be more efficiently satisfied by 
> a simple tagging mechanism? If an asset gets marked during the 6 month 
> interval then it has been used at least once, and should be retained. If 
> not then it might be lifted to a second level of asset storage. If the 
> marking was done asynchronously with respect to normal asset operations, 
> perhaps by a low-priorty region module that examined the current cache, 
> then there would not need to be any real performance impact. I would 
> definitely suggest that the last accessed info NOT be stored with the 
> assets as metadata, it seems more sensible to store it in a separate 
> table.
> 
> How much is this worth if we move toward an environment built around an 
> effective asset server model? The same might be said about e-mail and 
> agent servers, but I suspect the cost of adding the field is pretty 
> trivial. Where was the week-end discussion? I didn't see it in this 
> mailing list.

Sorry, my weekend brainstorming was just all by myself while
procrastinating on grad school duties.  It wasn't a discussion with
anyone else, hence why I brought it up here. :)

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
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http://dague.net


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