> whats the storage like on linode? Is that some sort of virtualized cloudy
> thing? wild guess says committed random writes are really slow.
Yes it's some sort of a virtual cloudy thing. I can't tell you more
than that though. They sell virtual machines and this project runs on
them.
Does anybody else have any suggestions for how I can make this
database behave a little better? Is there some tweak I am missing?
