[erlang-questions] How many fragments would be proper for1milions records in mensia?

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Paul Mineiro <paul-trapexit@REDACTED> wrote:
> Finally, with dets there is some memory
> overhead per
> fragment that we never completely understood (the
> "buddy system"), but
> we found less fragments meant less memory usage.

Presumably this is a variant of buddy memory allocation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_memory_allocation

Best,
Thomas