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Re: help required in installing gnat 4.0 version
From: |
Chad Walstrom |
Subject: |
Re: help required in installing gnat 4.0 version |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:15:25 -0500 |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:49:43PM +0530, arunkurse wrote:
> I am Arun , working as system administrator . I need to clarify
> certain doubts regarding gnats version 4.0 .
>
> 1. Is it possible to install gants4.0 on solaris 8???
I don't see why not.
> 2. If possible what should be the mininum patch level on solaris 8??
Define "minimum patch level".
> 3. How much space does it consume for installation and configuration
> of database ???
The programs are relatively small, especially if you compile them
dynamically linked. The size of the database will be proportionate to
the number of reports you expect to receive. Each problem report is
stored in a separate file on the filesystem in plain-text. The format
of each report is a modified RFC822 Internet message, and is fully
compliant with that standard. These PR's are not compressed, but can be
archived and aged.
Currently, we have just over 3000 problem reports in our database
directory. All of these were received over email, and MIME attachments
were not removed (so a significant portion of the space used is a result
of spam and viruses). The space consumption is currently around 21MB.
This could probably be reduced by at least one third if we
re-categoriezed many of the "pending" PR's to "spam" and removed them:
5.9M pending
3.4M spam
1.8M email
1.6M pc-sw
1.3M server
1.3M mac-sw
1.1M gnats-adm
772K website
736K general
496K pc-hw
488K network
392K windows
348K macintosh
248K mac-hw
228K printer
192K novell
124K lists
108K mmaker
68K biosci
40K projects
32K web-cgi
16K security
16K gnats
8.0K glycine
4.0K gnats-queue
4.0K mcb-xserve
108K test
Taking a quick cursory glance over the vast majority of problem reports,
space consumption falls around the 4k mark, the typical block size for
most filesystems. Space would be recovered here on a filesystem like
reiserfs, which specializes in storing many small files.
Some quick math would reveal that for every 1000 Problem Reports, on
average you should be consuming 4000 blocks or 4000KB of space.
Additional space savings could be realized through MIME
filtering/conversions of submitted emails through procmail filters. We
already block emails larger than 50KB in size. Some emails are sent
with both plain-text and HTML attachments, and some are HTML-only.
Our procmail filter is attached to give you some ideas on how to handle
such things.
--
Chad Walstrom <address@hidden> http://www.wookimus.net/
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