> > A feature I always missed (or just missed to find in the docu) is the following:
> > 1) It would be nice to have a command in odbedit which allows to check how full
> > the ODB currently is.
> > 2) Even more important: I would like to have an ODB routine which allows me to
> > check the fill level of the ODB, and/or a routine which tells me if I would
> > create a structure of given size that it still fits in the current ODB or not.
> > The use case is that some clients create on the fly ODB entries and I would like
> > to make sure before hand the ODB's remaining space in order not to crash things
> > by overfilling the ODB.
>
> If you do "mem" in odbedit, you see the currently free areas, one for the keys themselves, one for
> the data of the keys. The corresponding C function is db_show_mem. At the moment it outputs the
> list of free blocks as a long ASCII string, but if necessary I can write a variant which returns the
> number of free bytes.
>
> Stefan
Thanks for the info, and yes a variant of db_show_mem returning the number of free bytes would be just
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