On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Sivan Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sivan Greenberg <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM > Subject: Questions about database file sizes. > To: [email protected] > > > Hi List, > > First I'd like to say that my longly developed couchdb based system > seems to be performing well and serving its purpose. > > However, there's always a small difference between the database files > on the 2 couchdb server nodes we are using, after identical compaction > steps on both db's, the difference remains around 4k, even though the > number of documents is the same. > > This is CouchDB 0.11.0 , 2 nodes, each one does a pull replication > from its peer in continue replication over HTTP. > > Is this normal? Can we sleep at night without fearing the delta would > at some edge case occasion increase to the gigs ? Is it unrealistic to > expect the two files to be of the same size given same compaction > steps were taken and they both replicate pull from each other? > > Many thanks, > (CouchDB Rocks!) > > -Sivan >
You might try compacting twice. If you're not seeing the difference change after continuous writes its probably not a big deal. Paul
