# LPMOO: Huge files in LPMOO

Matt Pauker (mpauker@peganet.com)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:34:10 PDT

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    At 8:18 AM 10/2/95, Kirrily Robert wrote:
    >My database is about 2mb in size, and yet I'm taking up ~40 meg of disk
    >space because I have a 10 meg swapfile, 10 meg dgd.db, and 10 meg dgd.db.old
    >(?? i think that's what it's called).  Is there any way of making this
    >smaller, or does it simply go with the territory?  If the latter, I guess we
    >just have to put up with it.
    >
    >Kirrily

    That's the downside of binary dump files.  Fortunately, disk space these
    days is much less expensive than RAM, so I think the trade-off is worth it.
    (And faster checkpoints are always nice.)

    Matt Pauker