Toby,

There's another thing to be aware of: sessions are backed with the
datastore. If you have sessions enabled, you may want to write a scheduled
task that clears session data.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Eric Rannaud <eric.rann...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Toby <tobias.ro...@sunnymail.mobi> wrote:
> > thank you for your update. In fact I was suspecting the index or other
> > management data. But it is hard to believe that it leads to such a big
> > overhead. I mean it is enormous to have an index that is 10 times more
> > than the actual data, don't you think so?
>
> If you look at the article, it doesn't seem that out of place.
> Remember that by default, two indexes are built for every property,
> EntitiesByProperty ASC and EntitiesByProperty DESC. If you look at the
> number of fields in the corresponding tables (see article), and if
> your entity has 5-10 fields, I would not be surprised by such an
> overhead.
>
> Marking properties as non-indexable, if you don't need the systematic
> indexing that Google does, will help save a lot of space.
>
> > Furthermore in the datastore statistics they already list so called
> > "Metadata". It is consuming about 44% of the space. I think that this
> > is the index, is it not?
>
> I don't think it is, no. I believe it refers to other kinds of
> metadata (see article linked earlier in the thread). Index disk space
> usage is, I believe, nowhere explicit.
>
> Eric.
>
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