Thanks for the reply and sorry about the HTML (had Outlook re-installed recently). Yes, I do mean ZODB (just wanted to indicate that I am using it in a Zope context and not stand-alone). I'll try and compile a test case as suggested by Toby and see if I can reproduce the problem. B.t.w. the only possibly "interesting" (read unstable ;) product I have installed is my own! So I AM probably the cause of my own problem (not that it takes me nearer to the solution though). What I also did not mention is that I am adding and retrieving the messages through XML-RPC, don't know if that's got anything to do with my problem though. I have in the mean time started moving the finely grained stuff over to a relational DB (yuck) and that should help. I saw that the data.fs file grew quite rapidly with a lot of finely grained operations, what's the best way to curb this? Packing every now and again? How do I do that programatically? Regards Etienne

Etienne,

Firstly, please don't post in HTML.

Etienne Labuschagne wrote:

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Hmm, it seems as if I am the only one with this problem.

Seems so, you got any interesting Products or External Methods (or pactches/monkey fixes/etc) installed?

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It is probably best to move the very finely grained data into a relational type DB - I'm not sure that Zope is great for a lot of small object creation/deletion cycles anyway.

I presume you mean 'ZODB', not 'Zope'. And I'd disagree. The number of creation/deletion cycles only influences the size at which a filestorage will grow.

cheers,

Chris