Couchbase session storage and growth of disk usage

Couchbase Server
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Hi,

we are using couchbase enterprise (3 node cluster mode) edition and our databucket used for session storage growed to 30 GB (which is ridicously high - I would expect not more than 500 MB). This would fit nicely into the “append-only” bug described here: http://www.couchbase.com/communities/q-and-a/persistence-becoming-issue-can-it-be-disabled#comment-390
My question is if this should be fixed in version 2.2 or if it is still an open issue? (I couldn’t confirm the issue with a quicklook into the changelog: http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Achangelog-panel )
If so is there is some kind of workaround (actually we don’t use auto-compactation - which IMHO would only safe some time I think). Some more information:

  • couchbase cluster in couchbase mode
  • used by client (php) with memcache protocol

Thanks a lot in advance & best, Georg

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Hello,

Since Couchbase use an append only approach you MUST run some compaction some times, especially with the number of operations/mutations you have in your system.

So the first thing to do will be to put the auto-compaction in place and you will save some place.

If you are looking for more information you can read this technical article about compaction in Couchbase 2:
http://blog.couchbase.com/compaction-magic-couchbase-server-20

Can you compact and let us know if it is better. (It should be)

Regards
Tug