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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2010-02-25 06:17:27 UTC
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Reasonable sizes 'amount read' from remote machines to reconstruct an arbitrary
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text: Reading 5MB for a 100K plain text is not a good trade off. Reading (say)
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500K is probably acceptable. Reading ~100K is ideal. However, it's likely that
 
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500K is probably acceptable. Reading ~100K is ideal. However, its likely that
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some texts (e.g NEWS versions) can be stored for nearly-no space at all if we
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are willing to have unbounded IO. Profiling to set a good heuristic will be
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important. Also allowing users to choose to optimise for a server environment