On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:41:25 -0400 "Jason T. Slack-Moehrle" <slackmoeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All, > > Off and on for the last few years I have been writing an e-mail > client to scratch a personal itch. I store the mail in SQLite and > attachments on the file system. However, I recently brought in all of > my mail for the last 15 years from mbox format. Now, my database size > is over 10gb. I'm not seeing any real performance issues and my > queries are executing nice and fast during search. > > However, does anyone have any thoughts about the size? Should I be > concerned? Is there a theoretical limit I should keep in the back of > my mind? I developed and use a filesystem over sqlite db, focused on filesizes <1MB and worm (write-once-read-many) access pattern. Some sqlite dbs have 500GB-1TB (few even bigger) on mechanical disks without speed problems. Easy to backup, use fts on someones and can attach-deattach filesystems db. One advice, increase sqlite internal cache, don't use its default value. > > Jason --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es> . _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
