ADSM-L

Re: Database Compaction Question

1995-11-21 17:46:38
Subject: Re: Database Compaction Question
From: David Berger <DBERGER AT NEON.GI DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:46:38 PDT
>>I noticed that the percentage of the database used by the ADSM Server sems to
>>constantly increase even when I am expiring files at an almost equal rat.  Is
>>there anyway to compact the database entries to eliminate those for expied
>>files that are no longer a part of my ADSM store?

>When you refer to expired files do you mean that the number of versions
>has been exceeded or that expiration processing has actually been
>performed?  Excess versions of a file will continue to occupy space
>in the database until expiration processing occurs, at which time
>all database entries for the excess versions will be removed from the
>database.
This is after I have run EXPIRE INVENTORY.  I don't have enough disk space to
keep more than one copy of each file.

>The consequence is that your database may grow until expiration
>processing is performed, because any excess versions will continue to
>occupy database space.  However, expiration processing will reduce
>database occupancy by removing database entries for expired files.

>Dave Cannon
>ADSM Development

As I reported before, I don't see any compaction of the database.
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