memory footprint

IT Wire: "Last week I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer.

So, let's dig deeper and use Firefox to see if Internet Explorer's memory footprint is actually a Windows Vista "feature" or not.

It's time for the ultimate smackdown: Internet Explorer vs Firefox on Vista."

If you want to store large amount of volatile data (e.g. log file entries) in a database with a constant storage memory footprint and no maintenance to purge the old entries, a round robin database is the best solution.

But how to implement it in MySQL?

Some of the heaviest tables in our database are tables which do some event logging.

Let’s look at a table which log the most recent visitors on a member profile. Look at that ugly output:

Posted to his blog, Dave Marshall has a tip that uses declare and a trick or two to check out the memory usage of your scripts.