DB size

[Robert Brenstein]

>
>Sorry to follow up so late, but the inordinate size of "small" db's 
>is going to be a big problem for me. With my main app I distribute 
>hundreds of dbs containing perhaps a total of 1K of actual data that 
>is used for controlling certain functions. When they were 200 KB 
>(V1.x) it wasn't so bad. But now an empty file is clocking in at 1.4 
>MB! Storing as UTF-16 has nothing to do with this enormous increase, 
>of course (I did have to increase the segment size from 512 to 1024 
>in v2.x, too, or I would get crashes, and that accounts for some of 
>it). I simply can't use hundreds of MB for these files. I certainly 
>hope there is a way to get the size back to 1.x levels.
>
>Jon

I am curious why you would use hundreds of dbs with tiny bits of data 
each. Seems that combining them into a larger db be reasonable. Or if 
this is just control data, use non-db files.

Robert