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MongoDB Administrator's Guide
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MongoDB Administrator's Guide

by Cyrus Dasadia
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
6h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Figuring out the size of a working set

In this recipe, we will be looking at what a working set is, why is it important, and how to calculate it.

As you probably know, MongoDB relies heavily on caching objects and indexes in RAM. The primary reason to do so is to leverage the speed at which data can be retrieved from RAM as compared to physical disks. Theoretically, a working set is the amount of data accessed by your clients. For performance reasons, it is highly recommended that the server should have sufficient RAM to fit the entire working set while keeping sufficient room for other operations and services running on the same server.

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ISBN: 9781787126480