Subject: Recycling

From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 11:06:28 -0700

Er, I didn't look at any hole filling code, sorry.  The hole filling
code we use is the Lithani Relic, #19019 on Lambda.  Mostly we don't
actually use it, because it stops the MOO dead for over a minute,
which leads to massive lag that doesn't dissipate for several minutes
after that.  We "resurrected" all the invalid object numbers below
#200, put most of them out in the magic number repository for general
consumption, and reserved some for future core objects or special
purpose objects (e.g. the petitioner got #4).

At present there are about 3000 objects in the recycling pool, holding
reasonably constant, since we've been jumping up and down about db
space usage so much, and reaping agressively.  The reason that there
are so many holes in the DB is that we didn't start doing object
re-use until after object #30000, and we didn't force it on people
until about #45000.