[Opensim-dev] Opensim database management - garbage collection

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>In a grid where you control all the regions and databases, it should be
>>feasible to write a tool that can discover inaccessible assets.
>>...
>>AFAIK the texture remains in the DB forever.
>
> [...]
>
> A command console level thing to perhaps run to tidy up one or two
> types of setup MIGHT be worthwhile though?  Opensim databases cannot
> grow forever or we will all have trouble.

If you are running one of the specific types of setup, you can equally
well grab this cleanup script from a third-party site (such as the
OpenSim Forge) and run it regularly. In my opinion, this functionality
doesn't need to live in core.

Mike