Re: [GNUnet-developers] insert - delete tests

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Monday 05 May 2003 07:31 am, N. Durner wrote:
> Hello Eric,
>
> > We can
> > see that after a deletion the insertion althougt increase the database
> > size (25.6Mb, 29.1Mb, 33Mb) where the full indexation take
> > 91.1 Mb. After deletion we loose space and insertion speed.
>
> That's not a GNUnet problem, but a database problem in general. As far as I
> know, even the big databases (Oracle, for example) just mark the content as
> deleted, the content itself is not discarded and therefore the database
> doesn't shrink.
> To release the space, you have to unload/dump the database to a file and
> import it again.

Note that you can use gnunet-convert to achieve this (you must change the 
quota a bit to run gnunet-convert; increasing the DISKQUOTA by 1 will do). 

Christian
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