Subject: How big is a MOO?

From: tim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 08:57:29 -0700

Well, the title says it all. If i was to install a MOO
somewhere, how much space would I need? It would probably
be quite small, and I am afraid not public at the moment,
but more for experimenting. Or have i misunderstood things
and MOO is rather private to xerox?

Tim

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From: [email-masked] (Judy Anderson)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 08:08:40 -0700

The DB for a moo using the "core" database starts at 400kbytes.  The
LambdaMOO DB is currently about 45mbytes.  I ran a private moo using
its own core DB (that means starting from scratch, about 1kbyte db and
*no* funtionality; amusing, but IMHO not very useful), the DB file
grew to about 100K.  But it was private, only four programmers
actually working on it and eight users total, and most of the time not
a lot of work actually happened.

The program itself I think weighs in about half a meg, plus you need
room for all the sources and .o files.  I wouldn't try running even a
private MOO without at least two or three meg available.

MOO is definitely public, just FTP it off of parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/MOO.

I don't know how much space the program consumes in terms of memory;
probably a lot.  I didn't have a problem on a sun3 that wasn't really
doing much else besides mail and file server for a small site, but
then my MOO was really small.
						yduJ