diff --git a/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBClient.scala b/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBClient.scala
index 0cc4db9c73..81bfa45713 100755
--- a/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBClient.scala
+++ b/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBClient.scala
@@ -1422,7 +1422,6 @@ class LevelDBClient(store: LevelDBStore) {
       val ratio = (index_usage*1.0f/index_queue_entries)
       // println("usage: index_usage:%d, index_queue_entries:%d, ratio: %f".format(index_usage, index_queue_entries, ratio))
 
-      // After running some load we empirically found that a healthy ratio is between 12 and 25 bytes per entry.
       // lets compact if we go way over the healthy ratio.
       if( ratio > store.autoCompactionRatio ) {
         index.compact_needed = true
diff --git a/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBStore.scala b/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBStore.scala
index e93b83bf42..de5718a3c6 100644
--- a/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBStore.scala
+++ b/activemq-leveldb-store/src/main/scala/org/apache/activemq/leveldb/LevelDBStore.scala
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class LevelDBStore extends LockableServiceSupport with BrokerServiceAware with P
   @BeanProperty
   var monitorStats = false
   @BeanProperty
-  var autoCompactionRatio = 100
+  var autoCompactionRatio = 250
 
   var purgeOnStatup: Boolean = false