[ZODB-Dev] Packing BIG fat Data.fs

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "CW" == Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:

  CW> Hi, How do you guys suggest I go about packing a Data.fs that
  CW> has ballooned to over 8GB? (thanks to the dodgy import problems
  CW> I mentioned here and on zope-dev)

  CW> I tried doing a simple pack on a 1GHz processor machine with 1GB
  CW> RAM. it quickyl became memory bound and I expect the disk was
  CW> happilly thrashing away...

  CW> IS this to be expected? If so, what shoudl I do about it?

Here's an off-the-wall suggestion: Can you export the Data.fs into a
Packless bsddb3Storage?  Then export it back to a FileStorage?

Jeremy