Addshore added a comment.
I would prefer honestly if we worked towards removing the table or at least separating it from the main metadata database (also thinking about Commons soon).
That is totally possible.
I guess it can say on the mysql servers? Where do you have in mind?
Perhaps we should
jcrespo added a comment.
loading a table with ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED but I am not sure compression is actually the cause, but maybe (I would actually be more sure about that) just a simple rebuild from scratch after a many edits are suffered (something common after >1000M edits).
Compression is