[Zope] compacting growing database

Courtland Idstrom court@pixar.com
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:45:33 -0700 (PDT)


I posted to the zodb list and got an answer. It was a permissions error...
It doesn't explain why the database would actually grow though. In any
case, I'm down to 10 Megs from 270 now :)

Sorry about the terminology for "compacting" -- I was indeed pressing the
"pack" button.

Thanks,
-Court

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Courtland Idstrom writes:
>  > I'm managing a Zope installation where my documents are imported from a
>  > script I wrote. Every time I run the script and it updates the documents,
>  > the database gets larger and larger, which I understand. Unfortunately,
>  > when I go to compact the database, it actually expands by about 5 Mb. I'm
>  > using
> Very strange!
>
>    Zope calls compacting "packing". You are sure, you "pack" the
>    database?
>
>    Does packing succeed without any error indication (exception)?
>    Do you see a "Data.fs.old"?
>
>  > Zope Version
>  > (Zope 2.5.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.1, linux2)
>  >
>  > Python Version
>  > 2.1.1 (#1, Jun 10 2002, 11:11:21) [GCC 3.1]
> You should upgrade to 2.1.3! (Although it is probably not responsible
> for *this* problem (but may cause very nasty others))
>
>
> Dieter
>
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