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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I run queries throughout the day that can return 8 million+ rows easily. Granted, it takes few minutes to run, but it has never caused a single issue with overheating even on slim pc’s.

This makes no fucking sense. 60k rows would return in a flash even on shitty hardware. And if it taxes anything, it’s gonna be the ram or cpu- not the hard drive.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

In my experience, the only time that I've taxed a drive when doing a database query is either when dumping it, or with SQLite's vacuum, which copies the whole thing.

For a pretty simple search like OP seems to be doing, the indices should have taken care of basically all the heavy lifting.