[Xapian-discuss] Size of the index

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:47:27PM +0100, Justine Demeyer wrote:
> I indexed a set of 200 000 data who has a global size of about 1Gb and the
> index created has a size of more than 3Gb!! What can explain this
> difference???

I've added a new FAQ entry about database size:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/DatabaseSize

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
    Olly