lucid users can safely use this ppa https://launchpad.net/~*gwibber*-*team* /+archive/*ppa which fixes this bug including a ton of other bugs too.*
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Tom Goh <[email protected]> wrote: > hmm, what is the fixed version for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > > I guess I am going to do an apt-get purge gwibber because nothing ever > gets fixed and gets pushed around. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to > Gwibber. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539275 > > Title: > gwibber_messages couchdb views use more disk space than needed > > Status in Gwibber: > Invalid > Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > Status in “gwibber” source package in Lucid: > Triaged > Status in “gwibber” package in Debian: > Invalid > > Bug description: > A lot of the views in the gwibber_messages couchdb database emit doc as > the value. This is unnecessary, as any view can me made to return the > document in its rows by calling it with the parameter include_docs=true, and > I believe it wastes a lot of disk space, as the views are stored in their > entirety. On my machine, with somewhere around 50K messages in gwibber, the > database (after compaction) takes 78MB, whereas the views for it take over > 1GB. > > I have started work on a branch that fixes this, which should be pretty > small, but it's a little more work than I expected, absent any kind of > tests. I'll try to add tests for the changes I make at least. > > (Another space saver is to use much shorter document ids. It looks like > gwibber generates its own ids, so I'd suggest encoding the uuids to base64 > to use less bytes or something. Obviously I'm polluting my own bug here, I > just wanted to make note of it somewhere in case I forget to follow up on > it.) > > > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539275 Title: gwibber_messages couchdb views use more disk space than needed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
