Courtland Idstrom writes:
I'm managing a Zope installation where my documents are imported from a script I wrote. Every time I run the script and it updates the documents, the database gets larger and larger, which I understand. Unfortunately, when I go to compact the database, it actually expands by about 5 Mb. I'm using Very strange!
Zope calls compacting "packing". You are sure, you "pack" the database? Does packing succeed without any error indication (exception)? Do you see a "Data.fs.old"?
Zope Version (Zope 2.5.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.1, linux2)
Python Version 2.1.1 (#1, Jun 10 2002, 11:11:21) [GCC 3.1] You should upgrade to 2.1.3! (Although it is probably not responsible for *this* problem (but may cause very nasty others))
Dieter