Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2958] Vanilla-3.0pl0?

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:19:22PM -0800, Tom Holub wrote:
> 
> Backup is a problem, but even that is getting cheaper.  My point is,
> if we're talking about a 100 MB player database, that's huge compared
> to netrek's current scheme, but it's small by any modern standard.
> If we're talking about 10 GB, that's a problem.

[ahn@pickled ntserv]$ ./test.old
#undef  LTD_STATS : sizeof(struct stats) = 176
[ahn@pickled ntserv]$ ./test.new
#define LTD_STATS : sizeof(struct stats) = 13068

I don't know what a typical player DB size is, but we're talking an
approximate increase of 75x.  That's not much by modern standards, but
it does assume that pickup server admins should expect disk usage in
dozens of MB instead of <1MB.


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