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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2014
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Swapnil Prakash Bawaskar, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Daniel Allen Smith, Portland, CA;
Anthony M. Baker, Sherwood, OR (US);
Jagannathan Ramnarayanan, Portland, OR (US);
Hemant Bhanawat, Maharashtra, IN;
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying two or more files, each of which include multiple entries, determining a respective size of each of the files, each size being an estimate of how many distinct entries exist in the respective file that are not garbage entries, determining a combined size of the files, where the combined size of the files is an arithmetic sum of the respective sizes of the files, estimating a compacted size of the files, where the estimated compacted size of the files is an estimate of how many distinct entries exist in the files that are not garbage entries, selecting the two or more files for compaction, based at least on a comparison of the combined size of the files to the estimated compacted size of the files, and compacting the two or more selected files.