Hi, Thanks for your answers.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > Do documents get updated? Did you try to run compaction? > There were only inserts, no updates. I had not enough storage to run a compaction, process hung when disk got full :( I will copy the database to another machine, where I will have enough space to run a compation, and let you know the result. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > 1.2.0 will have support for auto-compaction when released. > Good news :) > > Depending on what _id you choose, adding documents may require > re-writing internal b~tree nodes. This can increase space which is > then reclaimed post compaction or replication. > > Ideally your ids are ascending to minimise this, mail back a few > and we'll see. > My Ids were tweet Ids (numbers), mostly inserted in ascending order (but not all of them). Will keep you posted to check whether space has been reclaimed after compaction.
