Hi Mike That is just one Shard. There are multiples of this. ie multiple worlds At 02:47 AM 13/08/2005, Mike Schmitt wrote: >Interesting subject, I always wondered if there was a tougher user community >then gamers. > >Just out of curiosity, are your stats per host or do you plan on having all >your worlds use 1 database? > > >>Looking at a system that will be requiring 10,000+ simple writes per sec and >>20,000+ semi simple reads per sec. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l