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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: history file size
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.163346.22539@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 16:33:46 GMT

In article <4364@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>... I rebuilt the dbm history file, which grew to
>more than 8 Mb in size. Is this normal? Since only the article ID
>and the history file position are kept in the dbm file, I would
>have expected it to be 50-60% of the history file size.

It's normal.  The dbm file is a hash table, more or less, and there
is quite a bit of empty space inside it.  Our history.pag is about 2.5 times
the size of our history file.
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