Re: [xml-dev] MarkMail: now archiving xml-dev

• From: Jason Hunter <jhunter@...>
• To: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:49:19 -0800

Edward C. Zimmermann wrote:
> Quoting Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@...>:
> 
>> Jason Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> What if they start consuming 
>>> disk or thrashing the disk IO?  When you query against hundreds of gigs 
>>> of content, you don't have to be malicious to mess things up.
> 
> Its not 100s of GB. Mailing lists are not that large.

Apache's messages in raw mbox format weigh in just shy of 60 Gigs. 
Converting mbox emails to enriched XML involves an expansion.

So, in fact, it's 100+ Gigs of XML content.

-jh-