Antw: Re: mdb expected growth

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> schrieb am 11.01.2014 um 21:45 in
Nachricht <3E33AD8DB84666763FC3398E@[192.168.1.2]>:
> --On Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:21 AM -0800 "Paul B. Henson" 
> <henson@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 01:00:32PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>>
>>> I then proceeded to run a test load on it (basically, I had a script I
>>> put together when I added the memberof overlay that ripped through all
>>> of our groups, removing and then re-adding all members). After this test
>>> run, the use jumped to 1.9G:
>>
>> Hmm, well, I reran the same test script; there was no drastic jump in
>> utilization, but it did increase from 479536 pages used to 492848, or
>> 52M additional space used for storing the same content.
> 
> Yes, this is generally what I see when re-running massive changes.  There 
> is a one time growth jump, and then it stabilizes.

It would be interesting to see the quotient of "size of mdb" / "size of the database in slapcat format". OK, this ignores any indexes that will also consume some space...

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