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Loading from the database

by Jonathon Stevens · in Torque Game Engine · 01/14/2006 (10:25 pm) · 1 replies

I've read a few posts about people who have short hang/lag times while retrieving data from a database. What I'm wondering is, if I have a seperate login server, would it be a good idea to load all the data from the database into datablocks and then don't touch the db again until the character needs to be saved, which shouldn't really hang anything. Am I way off base?
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    Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
    #1
    02/15/2006 (4:59 am)
    For players, that would work.. yes. But why would a loginserver need the datablocks?

    Anyway.

    Some do the writes in batches, or based on events (picking up a item, would be such an event). That's where you might see slowdowns.

    I have yet to see the huge slowdowns talked about in other threads, though.