Replicated DBs do sometimes end up a bit sparser than we would like ... as you noticed, compaction does fix this. Regards,
Adam On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Darjus Loktevic wrote: > Nevermind, it actually shrunk a few minutes later. Sorry. > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Darjus Loktevic <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey Guys, >> >> I've been playing with CouchDB and found something very disturbing for >> me. I have a database with 1.5M documents, i decided to make a backup >> and created a new database, then replicated from the original. The end >> result was that original weights 0.9GB but the replica is 2.5GB! Each >> document has only 1 revision and I'm running 0.12a. I've also tried >> compaction, but nothing changes. >> >> Is this expected behavior and if so, can someone point me at a >> document on why could this be? >> >> Thanks! >> DL >>
