Re: INSERT waiting under heavy load

> > After digging through all the discussions of "INSERT waiting" problems I am
> > still not clear about the concensus about solving it.
> > ...
> > The only thing that I do not particulary like is that every INSERT
> > into this table has to adjust a counter column in a corresponding row of the
> > (table1) via (table3->table2->table1) path.
> 
> Well, if there are only a few rows in table1, then this design is
> inherently going to lose big.  Any two transactions trying to update the
> same table1 row are going to conflict and one will have to wait for the
> other to complete.  Rethink the need for those counters.

I appreciate that it is most likely not the best design though i expect
reasonable distribution of UPDATE hits against the first table when the
number of rows increases. 

What I do not understand is this: 

if the problem is caused by the the acquire lock->modify column->release
lock on the table 1, then why does it increase significantly increase as the
number of entries in the table 3 grows? The simulation maintains pretty much
constant rate of new requests coming to table 3.

Alex