[Zope] How many objects can ZODB hold?

[Randall F. Kern]

Does anyone know how to build python 1.5.2 with the linux 2.4 kernel for
large file support?  And if anything else would need to be done to
support a FileStorage of > 2GB?

Thanks,
-Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Hathaway [mailto:shane@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:18 PM
> To: sbabu@tnc.org
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] How many objects can ZODB hold?
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> sbabu@tnc.org wrote:
> > Probably a dumb question: I know ZODB stores everything
> > in an Object table. So, this table probably has a fixed length
> > primary key. To maintain this, let us say there should be
> > a counter which tracks the number of records in the table.
> >
> > The question is, is there any limit to this? Like Zope can hold
> > 1million objects?
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> First, the theoretical limitations: Currently an OID for=20
> FileStorage is
> 64 bits.  You might have a problem if you could create 1=20
> billion objects
> per second continuously over 544 years.  But FileStorage is=20
> not the only
> way to store objects.  Using existing alternate storage=20
> implementations,
> you can use Oracle or even create one file per object.
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> Now the practical limitations: some operating systems, like=20
> Linux 2.2.x,
> are limited to 2 GB files.  FileStorage has run into this.  But the
> Linux kernel version 2.4.x has lifted this limitation.  But=20
> it probably
> isn't wise to rely on FileStorage for many GB of data.  You'd want to
> use OracleStorage or the developing BerkeleyStorage.
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> Shane
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