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My realm is huge. It's basically a persistent world database for all of my D&D games. It encompasses worlds, planes, cities, NPCs, all that stuff.
My database backup (mostly that realm, though there are a couple others I played around with) maxed out in size at 124,576 KB quite some time ago, and hasn't grown since then. However, the more content I put in, the slower running it gets. I'm assuming there is some sort of compression tech that is allowing it to stay at that maximum size? I'm also somewhat concerned that at some point it's just going to get too big to work with effectively (tabs taking too long to load, etc). Since having an ever growing universe database is sort of the whole point of the software for me, this is a bit of a concern. So I guess this post is a combination inquiry into program limits, and prospective suggestion to increase them. |
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Split the realms out into individual games. Now that we have import/export there is no reason to run the way you are operating. I had the same issue myself.
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Also, try using the "Compress Database" option to see if it removes all the redundant data from your realm file.
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It stays the same size because the database engine grows the file in chunks. It'll stay the same size until the next time it needs more space, when it'll grow by a large amount and stay that size until it needs more space again. |
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BTW 124 Megabytes is not that large. You can probably alleviate most of your issues with the hardware upgrade suggested above.
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That's a comparatively small database. I'm currently at 3.5 GB, before compression it was 4.5 GB.
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9.45 GB currently so yes it can go alot bigger.
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Thanks all!
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Now, a modular realm loading capability, where realms could be linked and at the end of a session you could synchronize them (ie, things like detect content links between them) might be nice, as it could prevent loading stuff that you weren't currently working with. Quote:
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