Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-directory-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 87342 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2004 19:55:55 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 16 Apr 2004 19:55:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 61994 invoked by uid 500); 16 Apr 2004 19:55:44 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-directory-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 61955 invoked by uid 500); 16 Apr 2004 19:55:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact directory-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Apache Directory Developers List" Reply-To: "Apache Directory Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list directory-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for directory-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 70711 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2004 18:52:38 -0000 Message-ID: <40802B64.30209@sleepycat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:52:20 -0400 From: Charles Lamb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Karasulu CC: Linda Lee , 'Apache Directory Developers List' Subject: Re: [bdbje] Unusual file sizes References: <20040416185001.TMIY1705.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@franklin> In-Reply-To: <20040416185001.TMIY1705.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@franklin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Alex Karasulu wrote: >So basically I'm storing 18 times the data I'm putting in. I realize >with smaller data this is a higher ratio but it leads me to the >question of how much overhead is generated per database tuple? Also >is the overhead constant? > Alex, what happens if you DbDump the data and then DbLoad it back into a fresh file? Is the size still 7MB? -cwl