Understanding Disk Space Requirements for Designs
TLDR Pavan asked why their design requires so much disk space. Kishore Nallan explained that disk space needs depend on the average document size and how many documents are being indexed. They further clarified that the term "disk" refers to the --data-dir
provided to Typesense.
Sep 08, 2022 (16 months ago)
Pavan
06:14 AMPavan
10:14 AMKishore Nallan
10:17 AMKishore Nallan
10:18 AMPavan
11:49 AMKishore Nallan
11:50 AM--data-dir
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