On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Sergio H. Gonzalez
<shg_sistemas@...> wrote:

> It has 8,186 KB with some tables filled with some records. After I do an
> import
> from a DBF table (38.000 records) into this particular table:

...

>
> The database grows to 190,416 Kb !!
> Is that normal? The DBF I'm importing it's 10 MB, Of course I know that the
> relation between the DBF size and the growing on my databse may have very
> little
> to do, but I'm very surprised by the new size my DB gets after the import !.

Firebird 2.1 allocates disk space in big chunks to prevent file fragmentation.
Take a look at parameter named DatabaseGrowthIncrement in firebird.conf.

It may me the source of such a big difference.

hth,
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Douglas Tosi
www.sinatica.com