[rt-users] Purging OLD requests...

[Greg White]

Jill Lundquist wrote:
> 
> >The warehousing tool is certainly feasable. Essentially it would move
> >all the old transactions and tickets (using local criteria for the meaning of "old")
> >to a seperate database which was intended for reports, data mining and archival use.
> 
> Yeah, that's what I had in mind too.  I got the imagination running a bit
> too fast and soon I had an image of a system like a tape backup jukebox
> equipped with a robot arm to move the media around, so one could look at
> tickets from eons back.  With a soft drink dispenser on the side.  But
> that might be overkill.
> 

Cool idea. Needs an automatic coffeemaker tho, unless the /dev/coffee
project
is finished ;).

> >I've never written the tool because I've never been anywhere with an RT instance
> >that was to big or slow for easy use.
> 
> This is good to hear.  Does anyone know how big RT systems get without
> slowing down?  What is the biggest serial number out there?  I'm sure
> someone can beat my 87.  :-)
> 

3752 is the current serial number I'm working.

SNIP

HTH,

GW