From: Tim Gustafson
Date: May 21 2010 2:02am
Subject: Re: spamassassin database
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> Given a database that is doing 90% writes, what database engine should I
> use?

You may also want to increase your key_buffer_size:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_key_buffer_size

Tim Gustafson
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
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