empty db size

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/14/05 11:01 PM, "Andrew Sinning" <andrew at learningware.com> wrote:

>> But what you going to do ?
>> 
>>    Distribute empty db ?
>>    or fill it by data?   Then what will be size of full db ?
>> 
> 
> The end user will be creating the new dbs, so shipping with an empty db
> is not the issue.
> 
> The issue is this:  The end user creates a new "library" and adds 10
> questions.  Then they call our tech support and complain, "I only have
> 10 questions in my library, but the file is 7Mb.  It's too big to
> email!"  So, she (our tech support) reminds them to zip the file, and
> then she calls me and says, "Andrew, people are complaining that their
> new libraries are 7Mb, is there anything you can do about this?!"

Then again try 8 * 1024

In YOUR original code was just 8,
So segment could be very small


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