Nov 11, 2024

Now that it hasn't been reset or restarted for a couple of hours, it's smoothed out a lot. The progression is slightly non-linear, which is a result of paging cost on the mini. Even though paging is minimized by the tight coupling, and thrashing is avoided (no longer at 100% SSD), the paging cost increases with the size of the store, as later blocks can reach back further into the history. With full RAM there is no paging and it doesn't matter how far back is the look, paging does not increase and lookup cost is constant. So with full RAM we get true constant time, and with less we get some non-linearity. Though on this run the last 2 hours have been almost perfectly linear (constant time).