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MongoDB Master and Slave Replication - Windows or Linux

I have recently moved my MS SQL Server Database to MongoDB (2.0) on Windows Server 2008. Its containing 2 databases with following stats. (both databases get around 100 reads/writes per second). These ...
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I don't want to make a mistake. I am about to put my website online and I admit I haven't thought about which MySQL engine to choose: MyISAM or InnoDB. I read here and there that InnoDB should be ...
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Tune postgres 9.1 to speedup deletes

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I am running Litespeed (with suExec, PHP SAPI), MySQL, DirectAdmin, named on a VPS with a 16-core Xeon CPU and 2GB RAM. Currently, only 300 MB out of 2048 are used. It might sound a stupid, but how ...
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Mysql consumes a lot of memory

Here is my situation. I have an ubuntu server monitored by nagios. recently nagios sends alarms regarding the memory consumption on the server. I logged into the server and executed the top command ...