very large data files

[Ralf Habacker]

Jason Harris schrieb:
>
> BTW, my previous file size estimates were too large because I hadn't
> taken compression into account.  The 1-million star catalog is only
> 32MB after compression, so figure around 3GB for the 10-million star
> catalog.
>   
1 million = 32 MB, then 10 million should be 320 MB  not 3G or does it 
not scale linear ?

BTW: One kde on windows binary release  is about 1,5 GB

Ralf