[Exist-open] dom.dbx very large

[Mike R. <mi...@mc...>]

I was surprised to see that four MB of xml files have resulted in a 500
MB dob.dbx file.

My first reaction was this might have to do with the development work
i've been doing as I've been writing a lot of endless queries of late.

I've seen the removeDoc() called from the cocoon output (guessing that
this is eXist) going into very high numbers << hangs head in shame >>
when I write endless loops. :)

Is this possible? Once the files are indexed does this file change? I
have tried reindexing the collection but nothing changed. 

I'm probably going to extract and reindex the entire collection
tommorow, is this worth doing? Or is large file a result of the indexing
scheme (i'm imagining its not) for the sake of efficiency? If it is my
fault is there any other way to shrink this file in the future other
then deleting and adding the files again? 

Thanks for any input
Mike