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<HR><H2>Re: Database capacity</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Jul 13 09:15:26 2000
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:14:02 -0700
From: Bruce &lt;bruce@puremagic.com&gt;
To: coldstuff@cold.org
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

Wolfe wrote:
&gt;     When one reads that the database can have, say, 600 active objects
&gt; in
&gt; memory does that mean that is the absolute object capacity? I'm under
&gt; the
&gt; assumption that means you can have as many objects as your disk can
&gt; handle,
&gt; but only 600 of 'em can be in memory at once. Is that right?

Correct, and that's if your cache size is set to that.  There's a system
out there with a database size of several hundred megs and a couple
hundred thousand objects.

 - Bruce
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