I have read the following article, because couchdb was busy almost all the space of my hard drive at an impressive speed.
Thanks to this article I have managed to reduce the size of my database from 19 GB to 19 MB.
But I would like the "compaction" to be done automatically, without me having to worry, so I followed the steps of that article, however, there is no way to verify that the configuration is working properly.
How can I determine if it is working correctly?
You are facing a CouchDB 2.2 bug. You can check it here.
It is planned to be fixed in the next release 2.3