From 48d002e19a19de9664ccc548b36afd697434da31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clebert Suconic Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:10:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] adding a word about compact-min-files on the docs --- docs/user-manual/en/configuration-index.md | 2 +- docs/user-manual/en/persistence.md | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/user-manual/en/configuration-index.md b/docs/user-manual/en/configuration-index.md index b083eec637..5991446d77 100644 --- a/docs/user-manual/en/configuration-index.md +++ b/docs/user-manual/en/configuration-index.md @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Name | Description [jmx-management-enabled](management.md "30.2.1. Configuring JMX") | true means that the management API is available via JMX. Default=true [journal-buffer-size](persistence.md) | The size of the internal buffer on the journal in KB. Default=490 KiB [journal-buffer-timeout](persistence.md) | The Flush timeout for the journal buffer -[journal-compact-min-files](persistence.md) | The minimal number of data files before we can start compacting. Default=10 +[journal-compact-min-files](persistence.md) | The minimal number of data files before we can start compacting. Setting this to 0 means compacting is disabled. Default=10 [journal-compact-percentage](persistence.md) | The percentage of live data on which we consider compacting the journal. Default=30 [journal-directory](persistence.md) | the directory to store the journal files in. Default=data/journal [journal-file-size](persistence.md) | the size (in bytes) of each journal file. Default=10485760 (10 MB) diff --git a/docs/user-manual/en/persistence.md b/docs/user-manual/en/persistence.md index dff1bb0db6..bf6bf011e4 100644 --- a/docs/user-manual/en/persistence.md +++ b/docs/user-manual/en/persistence.md @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ The message journal is configured using the following attributes in journal. The compacting algorithm won't start until you have at least `journal-compact-min-files` + Setting this to 0 will disable the feature to compact completely. + This could be dangerous though as the journal could grow indefinitely. + Use it wisely! + + The default for this parameter is `10` - `journal-compact-percentage`