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List:       pgp-keyserver-folk
Subject:    Certification Server passed 2 GB, without problems
From:       "teun, Tilburg University" <Teun.Nijssen () kub ! nl>
Date:       1999-06-30 10:06:17
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Hi Peter,

/On Jun 30,  8:53am, "teun, Tilburg University" wrote:

/} /} By the way, today the SURFnet Certification Server will pass the 2GB limit
/} /} on the biggest database file; or it will die.
/} /} 
/} /} -rw-r--r--   1 cserv    users    2132148224 Jun 29 10:27 id2entry.dbb
/} 
/} /Hi Teun, hope it survives!
/} 
/} it did
/} 
/} -rw-r--r--   1 cserv    users    2168668160 Jun 30 08:52 id2entry.dbb
/}-- End of excerpt from "teun, Tilburg University"
/
/Congratulations! How big can it get before you get in trouble? :-)

well, the database is more than its biggest file:

cserv> du -k data
2883498 data

So I guess the next challenge will be when the database won't fit on a 
reasonable disk anymore. With current exponential growth, within 18 months a 9 
GB drive will be in trouble, with the current Horowitz server as well as the 
Cert Server. I myself tend to forget that the Horowitz server is only with us 
since Janaury 1997, when we had 25.000 keys. Now, we have more than 600000.

We really will run into practical trouble with the theoretically correct 
stanza of "never delete a key" or "ask cooperation of users before deleting a 
key"....

I guess I'm getting an old worry-head, looking at it like this just after the 
elation of the great 0.9.4 improvements. I think I'm going to the country of 
the Tico's and Tica's to have a beer, Saturday. Actually, I'm certain of it.
Let me excersize my most succesfull sentence in Spanish; "Signor, un Imperial 
por favor".

cheers,

teun

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