On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:20 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:38, Bob Ham wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:36 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 20:28, Bob Ham wrote:
> > > > That was what I proposed near the start of this thread.  I would note,
> > > > as well, that the store-shrinking code should already exist for cases
> > > > when the user reduces the configured size of the store.
> > >
> > > It does, but as I have already stated at least once, it is difficult to
> > > efficiently do an online shrink while preserving the most recently used
> > > data.
> > >
> > > It is of course possible. One way to do it is to swap the key you'd be
> > > deleting with the least recently used key just before truncating.
> >
> > What's your point?

> Obviously the latter is preferred but we can only do it on startup.

I'm still unsure as to why you're telling us this.  Is your point that
work still needs to be done on store shrinking?

Bob

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>
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