Damian, I am using du -ksh ./* on the databases directory.
I am getting 25M ./test_store On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Damian Steer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/02/15 13:49, Trevor Donaldson wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Trevor Donaldson <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am in the middle of updating our store from RDB to TDB. I have > noticed > >>> a significant size increase in the amount of storage needed. Currently > RDB > >>> is able to hold all the data I need (4 third party services and 4 > years of > >>> their data) and it equals ~ 12G. I started inserting data from 1 third > >>> party service, only 4 months of their data into TDB and the TDB > database > >>> size has already reached 15G. Is this behavior expected? > > Hi Trevor, > > How are you measuring the space used? TDB files tend to be sparse, so > the disk use reported can be unreliable. Example from my system: > > 6.2M [...] 264M [...] GOSP.dat > > The first number (6.2M) is essentially the disk space taken, the second > (264M!) is the 'length' of the file. > > Damian > > -- > Damian Steer > Senior Technical Researcher > Research IT > +44 (0) 117 928 7057 >
