[2017-11-15 02:12:35 UTC] Yes they came and went away in waves. Also umm... have you considered the GHOST CLEANUP TASK? (that's what online said). Also does anyone know anything about dynamoDB? Basically we want to store filenames + other info and we'll be querying most often on whether we processed them failed or succeeded. Basically its about GLOBAL SECONDARY INDEXES and whether creating a second table with filename + errorMessage is faster/slower IN TERMS OF write/read units [2017-11-15 02:12:37 UTC] HELP [2017-11-15 02:14:13 UTC] Also I just had a thought... why doesn't any sql implementation like just store the number of records in a long and then optimize a count(*) to just return that??? [2017-11-15 21:12:47 UTC] probably because you'd have to lock and unlock the long constantly, and count(*) isn't usually done in prod [2017-11-15 21:13:27 UTC] sorry dunno about dynamoDB [2017-11-15 21:13:38 UTC] I had to do an optimize table to fix it [2017-11-15 21:13:58 UTC] Should have just made a new table and copied the non-deletable records in and swapped the tables, like usual [2017-11-15 21:14:25 UTC] instead it took forever and caused outages [2017-11-15 21:19:42 UTC] Sessile Verdures Chatâ„¢.... I think verdures are always sessile?