Hi Marten, Marten Terpstra <marten@BayNetworks.com> writes: * * Why didn't anyone ask me? It is definately an DBM bug, or rather the The first report came from Tony Bates (You probably still remember him ;-)) and most of the discussion was done on the 'db-wg' mailing list (true this subject belongs more on rr-impl). We more or less (wrongly?) assumed that you were on that mailing list and that if Tony had this problem it was something new ... * way DBM grows its datafiles. It basically is rather stupid when it needs * more space and will take an increasing chunk of disk space for the * index. Not using the -p option will only be a temporary measure, only * because you make the database smaller (no prime entries) but you do * make it flatter. Try and make or run a perl with sdbm or gdbm. These * two have better size control than the standard dbm (esp gdbm) but are * slower when indexing. This was also my conclusion, but we would like to know for sure that it is the dbm package since this problem appeared within *one* week with several people using completely different sizes of filesystems... I don't like to maintain a timebomb that will go off some other day ... I better be sure about this. I hear that most people recommend the Berkeley db package so I am experimenting with that one ... (Check the perl5 man pages 'man AnyDBM_File' and you know why ;-)). Kind regards, David Kessens RIPE NCC Database software maintainer --------