[Coldstuff] A couple questions, possibly related.

[Jonathan Ross]

   Is there any particular reason a signed 32-bit integer was used rather
than an unsigned 32-bit integer?

--Jonathan Ross

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Mitchener" <bruce@cubik.org>
To: <coldstuff@cold.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Coldstuff] A couple questions, possibly related.


> talvin@multipro.com wrote:
>  > OK.  While working with coldcc, our Site Maintainer says he saw a
>  > reference to 30,000 as a limit.  He was not sure if this was 30,000k,
>  > or 30,000 as the top db#, or what.  Is there a limit to the database
>  > size? Is it tunable?
>
> There's a Cold with a 2.4 gig database, so there isn't a known limit
> with the dev tree.  For the 1.1 release, there is a 2G limit on the DB
size.
>
> The limit on top db# is the max value for a signed 32 bit integer, or
> 2.1 billion or so.
>
>  > Also, "binary database free size".  This is showing us around 5.7%,
>  > as opposed to 6.4% for a fresh ColdCore.  How is this figured?  What
>  > does it mean, and what should we be watching for?
>
> This is just the number of 'blocks' in the DB that are free.   I usually
> don't worry too much about it.
>
> There's also some explanation of the cold database stuff on:
>
>    http://agora.cubik.org/wiki/view/Main/ColdMudDatabase
>
> although it could probably go into more detail on some of these points.
>
>   - Bruce
>
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