[ZODB-Dev] Packing BIG fat Data.fs

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How do you guys suggest I go about packing a Data.fs that has ballooned to over
> 8GB? (thanks to the dodgy import problems I mentioned here and on zope-dev)
> 
> I tried doing a simple pack on a 1GHz processor machine with 1GB RAM. it quickyl
> became memory bound and I expect the disk was happilly thrashing away...
>
> IS this to be expected?

No. I haven't seen this before.  I can't imagine why this would
happen, assuming that you can actually use the data still.

We've had custmers routinely pack much larger databases.

Jim

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