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Firefox/Projects/Places Vacuum

No change in size, 17:23, 28 August 2009
Vacuum on idle
This approach is actually the best one, but has some glitches:
* We need a guess if the database needs to be vacuumed, we can't detect much about it (see better vacuum section below for information), we will just try to use the freelist to detect if big changes have happened in the database and it needs to be shrinked. Current ratio could be freelist_count/page_count, we need to define which can be a good treshold to activate vacuuming. Actually we could check if 1/4 5 of the db space is unused space.
* We should not vacuum too often, indeed vacuum completely removes the freelist, that is used to enhance INSERTs speed. Vacuuming too often will cause INSERTs to be slower. we will try to avoid vacuuming more than once a month, but at least once in 2 months.
* if the user is idle but watching a movie we could end up creating issues. we will use an async statement to vacuum, that will at least ensure that we run it in a separate thread, if user comes back to the browser the UI won't be locked, but anything Places related won't work and will block it.
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