Hey Rob, my strategy has always been to try and keep the db sizes under 100 mb. If we are already taking a downtime for something else (emr upgrade, server reboot, etc.) and other conditions are ideal (edb is being maintained and rdb is empty and I don’t have to save off files and replay them) then I will reinit everything that I can. If I get into a situation where the db size has gotten much larger than 100 mb and there is concern that it is negatively impacting performance, then I might opt to take a brief downtime for a site outside of a already scheduled downtime. The hcidbinit gives you a lot of options though. I’ve been in situations where I was planning to do a hcidbinit -ACf but there were less than ideal conditions with either the edb (unaddressed errors) or rdb (a system unexpectedly down and messages queued up) and I chose to only reinit one of the two and came back around and did the other when conditions were more ideal.
