very large data files

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

El Jueves 10 Julio 2008, Jason Harris escribió:
> How big a file is acceptable to distribute via GHNS?  75MB, 750MB,  
> 7.5GB?  None of these?
> How big a file is acceptable to host on kde.org for download?
>
> People seem interested in a streaming solution a la OpenStreetMaps,  
> but for now I want to think about distributing the entire catalog,  
> because I think it would be annoying to have to wait for the stars to  
> appear every time I reposition the display, and I do not want to  
> require a live network connection.

I'm not an admin of GHNS so I don't know what is acceptable there. But if you 
use a cache then when you reposition to somewhere you already have been it 
would read the stars file from your hard disk. Also I think you could have 
both posibilities: downloading all the starts from somewhere (I also think 
that it might be a good idea to download it from NOMAD), and also downloading 
on-the-go.

> It's possible that we'll eventually do a hybrid solution (e.g., the  
> brightest 1 million stars are stored locally for immediate access, and  
> anything fainter is streamed over the net).  But for now I just need  
> to know at what point a file is too large for our standard  
> distribution methods (GHNS and ftp.kde.org).



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