Deleted docs take space. If you used the DELETE http method, then it's minimal, but if you just added _deleted:true to your document and saved, then it contains all the data of the previous revision, including all attachments.
B On 22 December 2011 21:01, Chris Stockton <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a customer using 11MB of disk space, not much but it so > happens the user is using more like 100KB of data. One thing we have > noticed is that the users doc_del_count is very high, indicating he > likely had 11mb of data but later deleted it. > > {"db_name":"...snip...","doc_count":49,"doc_del_count":42981,"update_seq":86097,"purge_seq":0,"compact_running":false,"disk_size":11427940,"instance_start_time":"1324102884349705","disk_format_version":5,"committed_update_seq":86097} > > After compaction the size does not change, the physical file on the > file system is verified 11MB. > > Viewing _all_docs shows a page and a half of data, viewing futon shows > the user really is using around 100kb max. > > Any guesses here? > > -Chris
