On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:20:19 -0700 (MST)
"Charlie Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, sitewide. I'll pay attention - it's only about 2 MB bigger than when
> I mailed yesterday. If it is slowing down (which makes sense), I'll be OK
> for a while. And even if I have to clear it once a month, the benefits
> are still pretty big.
You should pay attention to the "du" output too, not only the "ls" file
size. On some systems at least a mechanism of the unix file system is used,
which allows "holes" in files, which are counted into the file size but
aren't really allocated. DMB is IMHO uses this.
Extract from "man dbm" (Sparc Solaris 2.8):
"The .pag file will contain holes so that its apparent size
may be larger than its actual content. Older versions of the
UNIX operating system may create real file blocks for these
holes when touched. These files cannot be copied by normal
means ( cp(1), cat(1), tar(1), ar(1)) without filling in the
holes."
HTH,
Henning
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