Re: [Sks-devel] dumping, importing, and KDB size

[Peter Palfrader]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dan Egli wrote:

> > Thirdly, the KDB directory seems to grow and grow and grow.  It's hard
> > to believe that there are so many new keys since I started operating the
> > keyserver (the KDB dir is 1.6 gigs, the dump dir is 2.1 gigs).  Is it
> > possible to somehow 'compress' the KDB directory?  For instance, are all
> > those log files needed?
> 
> No. As an example my KDB dir had 118 log files today. Only #118 was
> needed. the easiest way to take care of that is to change to your KDB
> directory (and do the same in your PTree dir), then run: rm -f
> `db_archive`

Just freed about 1.2 gigs with that, thanks.  Yaron, could that be
documented somewhere in 1.0.5?  Or preferably sks would get rid of them
itself?

Peter
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