From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 1 07:51:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23888 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23862 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10509 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:51:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA17324 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:51:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16211 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:51:30 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199802011551.QAA18953@intern> Subject: Re: File Size limit? In-Reply-To: <199801312325.RAA08750@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "Jan 31, 98 05:25:55 pm" To: toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:51:22 +0100 (CET) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, karl@mcs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" > > > Good, because I am dangerously close to 2G files in my Rdbms right now :-) > > > > > I suspect that you won't have any problems until at least 32GB. Theoretically, > > we can support .5TB, but it hasn't been adequately tested, and I believe > > that there are some known overflow problems before there. > > > > We've passed 4G on our httpd log files with no adverse side effects. (analog > freaked out past 2G, but I can reliably read/write at least that far) > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 4937477849 Jan 31 17:24 httpd-access.log JFYI, when doing backups, I tar all files into a single tarfile on a seperate holding disk. I have been above 16GB already without any visible side effects (2.2.5-stable). However, deleting that file takes a little bit :-). -Andre