On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:13 -0400, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:54:18PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > The current dpkg database counts for less than 0.1% of the entire used > > disk space of a typical Debian system. Even with the new meta-data, I > > can't see this reaching anything over 0,5% of the entire used disk > > space; especially as the new features reduce the need for "expensive" > > maintainer scripts (about 75% of them go away entirely). > > I think it makes more sense to measure database size as compared to > the size of managed files. > That's what I was doing, 0.1% of the entire _used_ disk space is the current dpkg figure. We'd would be aiming for 0.2% and a hard "do not pass" limit of 0.5% of the size of the installed files being managed. This is reasonably good, and very favourable to other things like how much memory the kernel uses to track a page of memory (a lot more than 4 bytes :p) Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com
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