Bill McCormick wrote: > For dynamic data stored in anywhere in a global having > globals with compaction around 60% is nice for preventing block splits. I note that "prevent" is too strong a word.
But is it not correct to say that a KILL compacts a global to some degree? (Perhaps ISC still discloses the thresholds for this and you can tell us.) For example, if a KILL leaves two adjacent blocks each 25% full, doesn't Cache' combine the data into one block and free the other block? Or if one block is 10% full and it's neighbor is 40%, are they not usually combined? If so, then would it be correct to say that Cache' is automatically doing just about what you suggest?
