On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Turner
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > 1] Is it safe to assume that the memory usage for
> > > analog to process a set of cache files will be about
> > > the total of the size of those files? (e.g. the
> weekly
> > > report used 1.5GB -- the sum of all the cache file
> > > sizes).
> > >
> >
> > No. Only if all the items in each of the cache files
> are distinct. The main
> > memory constraint is the total length of all the
> distinct names of all the
> > items.
>
> But this would be a maximum then? Or close to?
>
Err... Yeah, I guess so. And if you combined them all into a single cache
file it would be close to the actual amount.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
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