[354] in Moira
Moira retrieve limits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Dec 6 11:09:16 1991
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 11:08:21 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: kim@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@Athena.MIT.EDU, accounts@Athena.MIT.EDU, ops@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kim@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 06 Dec 91 09:14:45 EST <9112061414.AA06083@box.MIT.EDU>
The value would be compiled in, so it's changeable, but only with
effort.
Choosing what limit to use is difficult. There is no one number that
is too large, but anything below it works. I'm talking about limiting
the number of records that can be returned. But records can be
different sizes, and the coredump happens because the total amount of
memory used by the query was too large. The way the database has been
growing, and value we pick will eventually be too small.
-Mark
