Hello, First let me say that I really appreciate Xapian. It has proved extremely useful to me. I have about 40 databases currently being indexed independently but which I would like to consolidate. I'm using the flint back end since it would be nice to make use of the extra performance. I found though that I end up using quite a lot of file descriptors if I have 40 databases per query. Is there a flintcompact on the table or should I switch to quartz so that I can use quartcompact? Gavin