On 03/25/11 13:25, Randall Leeds wrote: > When compacting, Couch traverses a snapshot of the database and copies > the current revisions out to a new, compacted database file. > When it reaches the end, it needs to incorporate any new revisions > that happened during the first pass. > Each successive retry should be much faster than the last. > In theory, if the database is busy enough, compaction might never > finish. In practice, I don't think anyone has ever seen this occur.
Randall, That made perfect sense. And indeed, it did finally run out of things to compact. Thanks for the explanation.
Wayne Conrad
