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To first order it shouldn't be the case.

Is the number of deleted documents growing with time? That'd have an impact.

Adam

> On Apr 22, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Boaz Citrin <bcitrin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Our database contains more or less the same number of documents, however
> the documents themselves change frequently.
> I would expect that compaction time will be the same, but I see that over
> time it takes longer to compact the database.
> 
> Why is it so? Any way to overcome this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Boaz