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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti arenas
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:10:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430111055.I26796@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6641ba56fe369dcba9498b55574627c9@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>; from Richard Miller on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0100

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0100, Richard Miller wrote:
>
> I think the last arena can only exceed arenasize by up to MinArenaSize
> bytes, which is 1 megabyte.  So you only have to set arenasize to
> 1MB less than the size of your backup media.

That doesn't make a great deal of sense.  If it is going to be limited
to an extra megabyte, why not keep it the exact size and throw the
remainder away?  What does the extra megabyte buy you?

++L


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-30  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-30  7:22 nigel
2003-04-30  7:40 ` nigel
2003-04-30  9:03   ` Richard Miller
2003-04-30  9:10     ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2003-05-07  4:26       ` Boyd Roberts
2003-04-30  9:22     ` nigel
2003-04-30 18:10   ` rsc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-01  6:34 nigel
2003-04-01  7:47 ` Martin C.Atkins

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