Impressed with 'Compress database design'
Kim Greene
I am very impressed with the new database property 'compress database design'. I recently upgraded my test Domino server from 7.0.3 to 8.0.1 and played around with the 'compress database design' database property. After doing a compact -c on the database to switch it to the new ODS, level 48, I saw this on the console:
Compacted mail/dadminis.nsf, 9472K bytes recovered (54%)
Here is a bit of a precursor to explain my test. The mail file (dadminis.nsf) was using the Standard Mail 7 template. It was still at ODS 43 after the upgrade. The mail file only had 4 documents in it, so it was primarily comprised of design elements. I set the notes.ini parameter Create_R8_Database=1 and restarted the server. I did a 'load compact -c mail/dadminis.nsf' at the console, and got the above results, the 54% reduction in file size.
The size of the mail file (still the Standard Mail 7 tempate) went from 18 MB down to 8192 Kb. Talk about a nice improvement for a base mail file. Thank you to the Lotus team for this improvement!
Next on my target list is how much the database property 'compress document data' pays off.