Hi Erik,

Ok that makes a lot of sense now.  Thanks! :)

cheers,
Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Zachte <erikzachte@infodisiac.com>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:53 pm
Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Changing lengths of full dump
To: xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org

> Jamie:
>
> > I thought the file size would grow fairly linearly with the
> page count,
>
> > but for the last 10% or so of the pages the file size hardly
> grew at all.
>
>
>  
>
> Pages in the dump are in order of page id, and thus more or less
> in order of
> creation date.
>
> Pages in the end of the dump are small, more often stubs, with few
> revisions.
>
>  
>
> Erik Zachte
>
>  
>
>