[Glass] [GLASS] Seaside - growing extent - normal?

[Lawrence Kellogg via Glass]

Well, Amazon sent me a note that they are having hardware trouble on my instance, so they shut it down. It looks like they’re threatening to take the thing offline permanently so I’m trying to save my work with an AMI and move it somewhere else, if I have to.

I finally got Gemstone/Seaside back up and running and noticed these lines in the Seaside log file. These kind of messages go on once a day for weeks. Is this normal? 

--- 03/07/2015 02:44:14 PM UTC ---
    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22528 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22528 megabytes.

    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22544 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22544 megabytes.

--- 03/08/2015 03:31:45 PM UTC ---
    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22560 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22560 megabytes.

    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22576 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22576 megabytes.

--- 03/10/2015 03:19:34 AM UTC ---
    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22592 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22592 megabytes.

--- 03/10/2015 03:46:39 PM UTC ---
    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22608 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22608 megabytes.

    Extent = !#dbf!/opt/gemstone/GemStone64Bit2.4.4.1-x86_64.Linux/seaside/data/extent0.dbf
       has grown to 22624 megabytes.
    Repository has grown to 22624 megabytes.


My extent has now grown to 

-rw------- 1 seasideuser seasideuser 23735566336 Mar 25 15:31 extent0.dbf


I don’t get a lot of traffic so I’m a little surprised at the growth. Should I try to shrink the extent?

I suppose I should also do a SystemRepository backup, if I can remember the commands. 

Best, 

Larry


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