ZODB analysis

A note to myself on how to get a quick insight in the content in a ZODB.

A couple of years ago I created mr.inquisition to get more insight in the content of a foreign Zope Object Database (ZODB). And while I believe it still may have its uses (although I haven’t personally used it for a while), you may want to start off with the following command:

$ bin/zopepy -m ZODB.scripts.analyze var/filestorage/Data.fs

This results in for example:

Processed 10611 records in 150 transactions
Average record size is  571.80 bytes
Average transaction size is 40449.41 bytes
Types used:
Class Name                                  Count   TBytes    Pct AvgSize
------------------------------------------ ------ --------  ----- -------
AccessControl.users.User                        2      262   0.0%  131.00
App.ApplicationManager.ApplicationManager       1      107   0.0%  107.00
App.Product.ProductFolder                       1       34   0.0%   34.00
BTrees.IIBTree.IIBTree                        302    64876   1.1%  214.82
BTrees.IIBTree.IITreeSet                     1952   114421   1.9%   58.62
...
webdav.LockItem.LockItem                       22     5817   0.1%  264.41
...PersistentAdapterRegistry                    3    13840   0.2% 4613.33
zope.ramcache.ram.RAMCache                      1      288   0.0%  288.00
========================================== ====== ========  ===== =======
                        Total Transactions    150                  39.50k
                              Total Records  10611    5925k 100.0%  571.80
                            Current Objects   6286    2696k  45.5%  439.25
                                Old Objects   4325    3228k  54.5%  764.46

Thanks to an article by Nejc Zupan from about a week ago (Dexterity vs. Archetypes) in which he used this—at least for me—hidden gem.