Re: articles.gdbm file never get's smaller in size

On 2003-10-19, Mirko Liss <[email protected]> wrote:

> In fact, it does. falloc.c:_gdbm_alloc() looks for the first available
> block of sufficient size. It reclaims as much as it it needs and frees
> the rest. falloc.c:_gdbm_free() merges adjacent blocks of available
> space to prevent fragmentation. Some fragmentation does still occur, but
> IMHO gdbm does a fairly good job of managing freed space.
>
> Well. This applies to the old, musty gdbm-1.8.0 from 1999. But the
> ancient, mouldy gdbm-1.7.3 from 1994 is not able to merge blocks of
> available space.
>
> Miernik, which version of gdbm is used by your distribution?

Debian unstable libgdbm3 1.8.3-2

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