[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

[geni]

On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why so much storage?
>
> Uncompressed enwiki text is 680GB. All images in total are about
> 300GB. Loaded into postgresql with a normal set of indexes enwiki
> takes about 400GB, I can imagine that a mysql load would be any larger
> (in mysql mediawiki uses zlib batch compression).
>
> I guess the 3TB makes sense to have some growth room.. but 18TB?
>
> :)

If you are doing mass computerised translations you could burn through
it pretty fast.

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geni