[rm-users] Re: Looking for other large volume users

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Daniel Dugal wrote:
> RM generates a number of files to support the whole spf set / html files.
> Sqribe support claims that the input to output ratio is about 2.5:1 but it
> seems higher than this. Has anyone else calculated a ratio like this? (I am
> in the process of collecting this info myself and will post my results.)

If you are comparing the size of loaded SPF sets to text files, I'd say
the difference is a lot greater than 2.5:1, due to the size of the HTML
files that get generated. I don't have specific figures, but just from
looking at the HTML files it's clear that they are a lot bigger than,
say, -printer:lp output would be.  For example, most " " characters show up
as " " in the output file; the more spaces you have in the output,
the closer to 6:1 you'll be :)

For a quick comparison, run "sqrp -printer:eh" on the .SPF file
you are loading.  The disk space required by Reportmart is basically
exactly the same as what gets generated by sqrp (though of course
ReportMart also requires a couple rows of data in the database for each 
file loaded); when ReportMart loads an SPFSet, the HTML files it
generates are the same as those generated by -printer:eh.

(Note that -printer:ht generates smaller files than -printer:eh;
ReportMart uses the newer format.)

I'd guess that the the "extra" files (nav bar, table-of-contents, etc.)
generated as part of the SPF set are insignificant compaired to the size
of the HTML for the report itself.

						
                                                Nathan


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