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We are working on auto compaction. The Couchbase alpha already supports it. This should help, but it will help even more on a cluster as each shard can be compa

by jchrisa 15y ago

We are working on auto compaction. The Couchbase alpha already supports it. This should help, but it will help even more on a cluster as each shard can be compacted independently.

rb2k_ 15y ago
does "auto compaction" mean that the compaction process is just automatically triggered?
- fdmanana 15y ago
  Yes, but only when certain configurable conditions are met (fragmentation level, time period). There's some user level documentation in the default.ini config file: https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb/blob/preview/etc/couchdb/default.ini.tpl.in#L190 https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb/blob/preview/etc/couchd...
  - rb2k_ 15y ago
    ok, that would still lead to a situation where my server crawls to a halt for hours and might never finish if I don't basically take it offline :(