On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:30:18PM +0000, Robert Newson (JIRA) wrote: > It depends on the size of the data inbetween headers. In my case, I have > 1k of document and ~60k of attachment per document, so the overhead > vanishes. If you have smaller documents and no attachments, then the > overhead is much higher, but your database is also much smaller, so > compaction is much more feasible.
Err... you could have a very large number of small documents. Logs for example.
