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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:02:25 +0200
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Subject: Fwd: Questions about database file sizes.
From: Sivan Greenberg <sivang@gmail.com>
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From: Sivan Greenberg <sivan@omniqueue.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Subject: Questions about database file sizes.
To: users@couchdb.apache.org


Hi List,

=A0First I'd like to say that my longly developed couchdb based system
seems to be performing well and serving its purpose.

=A0However, 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.

=A0This is CouchDB 0.11.0 , 2 nodes, each one does a pull replication
from its peer in continue replication over HTTP.

=A0Is 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