If you were to zip the entire forums, from past to present, how big would it be?

[Goosemaster]

?

 

[jlee]

If you were to zip the entire forums, you'd wind up with a .zip, not a .rar.

 

[compnovice]

Joining the FBI?

 

[EKKC]

5kb. the person zipping the DB forgot to include the subdirectories.

 

[FallenHero]

42

 

[Throwmeabone]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
42

42 TB

 

[Jawo]

Well if you leave out ATOT, I bet it would be a great deal less with all the neffing going on!

 

[Jzero]

Considering it's pretty much entirely text, probably a lot less than you think. Probably < 15 GB.

 

[imported_bum]

15 GB is still a lot for text though

 

[tfinch2]

Who cares?

 

[BlueWeasel]

It's got to be larger than 15GB.

 

[drinkmorejava]

I'd actually say less than 5gb zipped.

 

[bigrash]

I spoke to Anand and he said it's 15 kazzilion gb

 

[BeauJangles]

How does fusetalk manage the search feature? if it is anything like phpbb, which indexes every word ever posted, then the DB easily could top 20 gb.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
If you were to zip the entire forums, you'd wind up with a .zip, not a .rar.

lol

use rodney's encryption. should be 7% of the regular size of a zip file

 

[ViviTheMage]

nothing, its all in your head

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: quasarsky

Originally posted by: CadetLee
If you were to zip the entire forums, you'd wind up with a .zip, not a .rar.

lol

use rodney's encryption. should be 7% of the regular size of a zip file

what the fvck is rodney's encryption?

 

[everman]

A good compression algorithm would realize that we just post the same stuff every day, so the file would be quite small.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: quasarsky

Originally posted by: CadetLee
If you were to zip the entire forums, you'd wind up with a .zip, not a .rar.

lol

use rodney's encryption. should be 7% of the regular size of a zip file

what the fvck is rodney's encryption?

its a sga thing

not the college kind

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: everman
A good compression algorithm would realize that we just post the same stuff every day, so the file would be quite small.

ahhh lol

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
nothing, its all in your head

:thumbsup:

 

[duragezic]

There's multiple computers/servers to deal with the different parts as far as things like the database for searching.

For how much is here, the zip file size probably wouldn't be too bad. AFAIK the way file compression works is finding redundancies with words and groups of characters so with it mostly being text/conversation it should be able to compress fairly well, probably greater than 50%.


edit: And LOL you're right about the reposts and heavy neffing, so expect much greater than 50% compression.

 

[Evadman]

It depends on how the data is actualy stored. This calcualtion only holds true for char and nchar data types, and is based on SQL Server. If fusetalk uses an image, or text data type, then this can be MUCH larger, but the end result is roughly equivelent to the actual text of the post.

varchar or nvarchar: 23168191 * 8000 * 4 = 74138211200 (This post that I am posting in is post number 23168191 if you were wondering)

So, uncompressed, the text that makes up all the posts ever posted would be 74.138 GB.

Straight text compresses VERY well, so assuming what I can compress text fields that are the same size at work with gzip would make 74.138 GB of text be about 7.4 GB.

 

[eelw]

Well so far, this topic is 370kB and ZIPed up to 148kB. Let's pretend this is the average size of a topic here on AT, with over 300,000 active posts, that's over 11GB uncompressed. Add the archives, that could very well be around 1/4TB.

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: eelw
Well so far, this topic is 370kB and ZIPed up to 148kB. Let's pretend this is the average size of a topic here on AT, with over 300,000 active posts, that's over 11GB uncompressed. Add the archives, that could very well be around 1/4TB.

Just text right? not including the HTML?