[rm-users] Looking for other large volume users

[Ray Ontko]

Dan, Nathan, Frank, et al,

Here's a thought:  Does anyone know if it is possible to configure
reportmart to use gzip when storing the html files, and then configure
the web server (apache?) to zcat the files when they're served?

In other words, is it possible to use standard compression utilities
to reduce the space requirements of ReportMart?

Ray

> Is anyone else in the rm-users community doing a very large volume of
> reports? We have been live for two months and our "server" directory is now
> approximately 10GB. We usually pump in anywhere between 800 and 1500 files
> (spf sets) per day (depending on the day). 
> 
> I have just started to collect information on growth rates, so I don't
> really have any solid stats yet, but it seems like RM is using considerably
> more disk space than the source files we have going into it. I realize that
> 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.)
> 
> Pardon my ramblings here, I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed
> that RM seems to be growing into this uncontrollable space beast......
> 
> Anyway, any comments, ponderings, observations, musings etc. would be
> helpful. I will post my own results after a few days......
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> Daniel F. Dugal, Jr.
> Programmer/Analyst
> AFFINA - The Customer Relationship Company
> Ph: 309.679.4360
> 
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