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From a performance perspective, the use of transactions is not free.
Depending on how you configure them, transaction commits
usually require your application to perform disk I/O that a non-transactional
application does not perform. Also, for multi-threaded
<span>and
multi-process</span> applications, the use of transactions can
result in increased lock contention due to extra locking
requirements driven by transactional isolation guarantees.
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There is therefore a performance tuning component to transactional applications
that is not applicable for non-transactional applications (although
some tuning considerations do exist whether or not your application uses
transactions). Where appropriate, these tuning considerations are
introduced in the following chapters.
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However, for a more complete description of them, see the
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Transaction tuning
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and
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Transaction throughput
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sections of the <i class="citetitle">Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide</i>.
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