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Dmitri Levin
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create limit affects fragmentation. toss limit affects RM chain. Before the testes we were under impression that setting "correct" toss limit will cure long RM chain, but that did not happen. By "correct" I mean toss limit equal to the average record size and I even tried setting it 10-20% bigger than that. Some applications as Tom mentioned above create a record and then update it a little time after create. So the block gets during create on RM chain, a long one. Then shortly after it grows to the point that it does not belong there. But because RM chain is in millions of blocks it stays there very long time. That happen because blocks are removed only from the head of RM chain. By the time that block will be removed from the head of the chain RM chain will have millions of other blocks added at the end and then they grew to the point when they do not belong there. The above could be considered as bad application design. True.
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