Presentation given via webinar on 5th May 2010 by David Mytton on approaching 1 billion documents in MongoDB.
Audio recording at http://bit.ly/mongo1bndocs
24. Tip #8
10gen commercial support is
worth paying for.
24/25
25. Summary
1. Keep indexes in memory.
2. Monitor the 24k namespace limit.
3. Pre-provision oplog files.
4. Expect slower performance on replica sync.
5. Rotate logs from the console.
6. Index creation blocks by default.
7. OS file descriptor limit + persistent connections.
25/25 8. Commercial support is worth it.