Having the compacting running too frequently will make compacting to compete for resources. Messaging-01 has a pretty fast disk, because of that the numbers were good on both scenarios. We have to minimize the need for compacting. Having living records on the journal will cause compacting to be executed too frequently. We need to cleanup the links between those files. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4241739#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...