shrinking ovdb files?

[Alex Kiernan]

Ron Jarrell <jarrell at solaris.cc.vt.edu> writes:

> At 02:29 PM 7/24/01 -0400, Ron Jarrell wrote:
> 
> 
> >Is there anyway to make the ovdb files *shrink*?  They're certainly not 
> >reusing space well.  They're growing and growing.  I now note that
> >they're using 8.3G of a 9G partition, and real soon now will overflow;
> >despite the fact that I *know* I'm loosing articles off the end of the
> >cnfs buffers constantly; I only keep about 3 days of the binaries.
> 
> Well, there's one sure way to make them shrink.. Delete them. Since 
> they just overflowed and crippled the server.
> Here's hoping it doesn't take me 5 days to rebuild the history file.
> 

You can split them across several slices/disks using the DB_CONFIG
file; there's details in the FAQ:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#3.8

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC