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by fillipvt 1016 days ago
Just wondering, why pi?
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I've tested both π and g, and while they both work well, g results in far fewer disk full errors. I've heard c works even better, though I haven't tried it yet.
> I've tested both π and g, and while they both work well, g results in far fewer disk full errors. I've heard c works even better, though I haven't tried it yet.

Good to know. FWIW i should also be avoided. It's tempting to use, since most programs use it as a counter, so it /should/ standardize the logfilesizes. But in practice it's very tricky to get a definitive disk space requirement with it.