Re: [Monotone-devel] capacity

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:22:28PM +0200, Zbigniew Zagórski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Just wondering -- is there a limit on the size of a monotone repository?
> > I figure it's limited by the maximum file size on the file system, but
> > now that those limits have gone way over 4 gigabytes, has monotone's
> > data base backend kept up?
> 
> Monotone uses sqlite3, and it's limits are described here:
> http://www.sqlite.org/limits.html.
> 
> Page size of monotone db is 8192 (at least my databases are something
> like that), max database size is something like 8192 * 2^31 should be
> enough for any sane monotone database.

Thanks.  The link you provided tells me that although the maximum size 
of a database is normally 1073741823, although it can be set at 
compile tome to 2147483646.

So it looks like the max database is something like 8192*2^30 in 
practicd.

Still, as you said, it looks to be large enough.

> 
> So in theory it should handle huge databases ...
> 
> --
> Zbigniew Zagórski
> / software developer / geek / http://zbigg.blogspot.com /

-- hendrik