Well, I've got 128GB of RAM on the server, so it wouldn't matter. Joking! It worked just fine. I watched the start of the process on top. It ate less CPU than I expected and didn't appreciably affect RAM usage. So, from empirical evidence, I'd say that if packing uses RAM in proportion to the db size, it's only a few KB/GB. YMMV, though. My Data.fs was filled with an N-square bunch of transactions each superceding its predecessor. It had a very low signal/noise ratio. I don't know how it would have worked if it were clearing 350MB of transactions out of a 33GB database. Howard Hansen http://howardsmusings.com --- sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
Hmm... I heard somewhere that packing a filestorage used memory proportional to the storage size. I would consider posting to the ZODB-dev list, perhaps for some more pointers on how to get out of this?
Sean
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