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Everybody - thanks for all the comments! Excellent discussion, and I hope it gets people thinking a little about how much they can do without using "heavyweight" applications. Computers can be AMAZINGLY fast if you don't burden them with unecessary code.
Shadowhand, I have to agree with you about leafpad. It was actually on my list until I found and started using Beaver. It was a tough pick. Leafpad, despite being extremely simple, is very, very good for what it is intended for.  Its just that Beaver, for about the same launch time "weight" just does so much more. It *was* a tough pick though - I really like Leafpad. It really resonates with the whole concept of doing one job, and doing just that one job. It is a perfectly focused application.
Re Thunar, it is not "official" yet is it? I thought about it, but given that I think it is not due out officially until XFCE4.4, it seemed best not to include it in the list. Meantime, in this area, tuxcmd is *such* a find that I felt omission of Thunar was acceptable. When it is officially out, I will play around with it and decide.
Thanks again everyone for the lively discussion.

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    230     1      This is a 5 columns unique key index on (id number, dat date, id2 number, dat2 date type number).
    Furthermore, a space analysis of this index using dbms_space.space_usage gives the following picture
    Number of blocks with at least 0 to 25% free space            = 0                   -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of blocks with at least 25-50% free space              = 75                 -------> total bytes = ,5859375
    Number of Blocks with with at least 50 to 75% free space  = 0                   -------> Total Bytes = 0
    number of blocks with at least 75 to 100% free space        = 0                   -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of full blocks with no free space                              = 99848           -------> total bytes = 780,0625
    Total blocks ______________________________
    99923
    Total size MB______________________________
    799,384It seems for me that this index needs to be either coalesced or compressed.
    Then, what would be the best option in your opinion?
    Thanks in advance
    Mohamed Houri
    Edited by: Mohamed Houri on 12-janv.-2011 1:18

    So let me continue my case
    I first compressed the index as follows
    alter index my_index rebuild compress 2;which immediately presents two new situations
    (a) index space
    Number of blocks with at least 0 to 25% free space    = 0                -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of blocks with at least 25-50% free space      = 40              -------> total bytes =, 3125
    Number of Blocks with at least 50 to 75% free space   = 0                -------> total Bytes = 0
    Number of blocks with at least 75 to 100% free space  = 0                -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of full blocks with no free space                = 32361           -------> total bytes = 252, 8203125
    Total blocks ______________________________
    32401
    Total size Mb______________________________
    259,208meaning that the compress command freed up 67487 leaf blocks and reduced the size of the index from to 799,384 MB to 259,208 MB.
    It also shows a relative nice pictue of number of keys per leaf block (when compared to the previous situation)
    (b) on the number of key per leaf block
    KEYS_PER_LEAF     BLOCKS       
    4     1       
    6     1       
    13     1       
    15     1       
    25     1       
    62     1       
    63     1       
    88     1       
    97     1       
    122     1       
    123     3       
    124     6       
    125     4       
    126     2     
    289     4489       
    290     3887       
    291     3129       
    292     2273       
    293     1528       
    294     913       
    295     442       
    296     152       
    297     50       
    298     7       
    299     1      In a second step, I have coalesced the index as follows
    alter index my_index coalesce;which produces the new figure
    Number of blocks with at least 0 to 25% free space     = 0          -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of blocks with at least 25-50% free space      = 298        -------> total bytes = 2,328125
    Number of Blocks with at least 50 to 75% free space   = 0           -------> Total Bytes = 0
    Number of blocks with at least 75 to 100% free space = 0            -------> total bytes = 0
    Number of full blocks with no free space = 32375                    -------> total bytes = 252, 9296875
    Total blocks ______________________________
    32673
    Total size MB______________________________
    261,384meaning the the coalesce command has made
    (a)     298-40 = 258 new blocks with 25-50% of free space
    (b)     32375-32361 = 14 new additional blocks which have been made full
    (c)     The size of the index increased by 2,176MB (261,384-259,208)
    While the number of key per leaf block keeps in the same situation
    KEYS_PER_LEAF     BLOCKS       
    4     2       
    5     3       
    9     1       
    10     2       
    12     1       
    13     1       
    19     1       
    31     1       
    37     1       
    61     1       
    63     1       
    73     1       
    85     1       
    88     1       
    122     1       
    123     4       
    124     4       
    125     3       
    126     1     
    289     4492       
    290     3887       
    291     3125       
    292     2273       
    293     1525       
    294     913       
    295     441       
    296     152       
    297     50       
    298     7       
    299     1      Could you please through some light on the difference between the compress and the coalesce on the effect they have made on
    (a) the number of keys per leaf blocks within my index
    (b) the space and size of my index?
    Best regards
    Mohamed Houri

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