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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Parkinson's Law of Data</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="parity-errors.html" title="parity errors"/><link rel="next" href="parm.html" title="parm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Parkinson's Law of Data</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parity-errors.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="parm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data"/><dt xmlns="" id="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data"><b>Parkinson's Law of Data</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> “<span class="quote">Data expands to fill the space available for storage</span>”;
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buying more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques.
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(The original 1958 Parkinson's Law described the structural tendency of
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bureaucracies to make work for themselves.) It has been observed since the
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mid-1980s that the memory usage of evolving systems tends to double roughly
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once every 18 months. Fortunately, memory density available for constant
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dollars also tends to about double once every 18 months (see
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<a href="../M/Moores-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Moore's Law</i></a>); unfortunately, the laws of physics
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