[Aide] aide 0.11 is generating a VERY large database.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-12-01, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:

>> I upgraded that one to Ubuntu edgy with aide 0.11 and now have a 64MB
>> aide.db with 218731 entries and it takes 12 minutes.
>
> And you still have not told us which directories make the bulk of the
> database entries.

Thanks for asking!  

Here's a list of all the /* and /*/* and and /*/*/* that begin more than
500 entries in aide.db (generated by the Perl script I posted
yesterday).

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/dev                                           1461
/etc                                           8436
/lib                                          12681
/opt                                           1530
/root                                           674
/usr                                         196689
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/dev/.static                                    642
/etc/X11                                        561
/lib/firmware                                   500
/lib/linux-restricted-modules                   700
/lib/modules                                  10953
/opt/adam                                      1529
/usr/bin                                       2460
/usr/include                                   2163
/usr/lib                                      22227
/usr/share                                   153078
/usr/src                                      16145
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/dev/.static/dev                                641
/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386                     2165
/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386                     2166
/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-k7                      2139
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386                     2265
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic                 2217
/opt/adam/Protege_3.2_beta                      613
/opt/adam/stanford-parser-2006-06-11            825
/usr/include/c++                                503
/usr/include/linux                              523
/usr/lib/jvm                                    911
/usr/lib/kde3                                   720
/usr/lib/openoffice                            3383
/usr/lib/perl                                   639
/usr/lib/perl5                                 2227
/usr/lib/python2.4                             3385
/usr/lib/ruby                                   697
/usr/lib/swi-prolog                            1306
/usr/share/app-install                         2317
/usr/share/applications                         527
/usr/share/apps                                5505
/usr/share/cups                                 884
/usr/share/doc                                43684
/usr/share/emacs                               1298
/usr/share/firefox                             1170
/usr/share/fonts                               1698
/usr/share/foomatic                            2826
/usr/share/games                                793
/usr/share/gimp                                 832
/usr/share/gnome                               6114
/usr/share/gnucash                              635
/usr/share/gok                                  740
/usr/share/icons                              19059
/usr/share/locale                              3858
/usr/share/locale-langpack                      614
/usr/share/man                                 8924
/usr/share/omf                                  838
/usr/share/perl                                1070
/usr/share/perl5                               1132
/usr/share/pixmaps                             1143
/usr/share/ppd                                 5394
/usr/share/pycentral                           1036
/usr/share/qt3                                 1722
/usr/share/texmf                                910
/usr/share/texmf-tetex                        10278
/usr/share/themes                              6316
/usr/share/tuxpaint                            1307
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs                          868
/usr/share/vim                                 1355
/usr/share/xubuntu-docs                         701
/usr/share/zoneinfo                            1761
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10               9934
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic       6198
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