[Zope] too fast growing data.fs

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:43:26PM +0100, Carrer Yuri wrote:
> Andreas Jung ha scritto:
> 
> >
> >
> >--On Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 11:33 Uhr +0100 Carrer Yuri 
> ><yurj at alfa.it> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >> my data.fs is growing too fast. I just insert some object at day, edit
> >>scripts... and it grows from 50MB to 400MB in two weeks!
> >>
> >> how can I solve it other than pack daily? what should I look for?
> >>
> >
> >A growing Data.fs is completely normal since data is always appended to
> >the file. Regular packing is a normal maintenance job which can be run
> >automatically e.g. at night.
> 
> 
> Then, why append if you every night pack it? :)

I don't understand the question. "why" is irrelevant.
Data.fs is appended to every time something in zope changes. 
That's just how it works.

> An how-to on packing via cron?

Online zope book, maintenance chapter.

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