On 21 Apr 2004 at 22:49, Lee Jenkins wrote:

>these tables and wanted to back up and restore to force clean up. Backing
>up took like 15 minutes on my AMD Athalon 2200 with 394 MB DDR Mem (my work
>station) and I was wondering if this was probably due to garbage collection
>because of the two large deletes that I had just performed.

Backup always perform garbage collection unless you explicitly
disable it using -g switch.

SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.