From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20736 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2001 02:18:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20698 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 02:18:19 -0000 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:33:00 -0000 From: Jason Molenda To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Lots of gdb.log files for gdb-testresults? Message-ID: <20011111181745.A10524@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <200111120202.UAA32261@duracef.shout.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111120202.UAA32261@duracef.shout.net>; from mec@shout.net on Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:02:44PM -0600 X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 Hi Michael, On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:02:44PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > I have a set of 8 gdb.log + gdb.sum files which I would like to post > to gdb-testresults. These files are big: 2.2 megabytes for each gdb.log > file and 0.5 megabytes for each gdb.sum file. > I have ambitions to scale up to 20-100 sets per week. Also, the compression > ratio on these files is pretty good: gzip --best gives an 88.2% compression > ratio. So we're talking about (2.7E+6 bytes * 0.12) * 50sets/week * 52weeks/year or around 842MB/year? That's a pretty big chunk of disk space - the past three years of list traffic only takes around 8GB of disk space for all ~150 mailing lists hosted on sourceware+gcc. Is this information really going to be useful? Could it be better represented in diffs, or in some sort of SQL database? Maybe the gdb project maintainers would want to set up a ftp directory and dump them in there or something like that. (but then the ftp site mirrors would be forced to replicate all of it to their sites..) I'm not responsible for sourceware, so my opinions aren't very relevant :-), but that's a lot of disk space.. J