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## Problem Part of the legacy (but current) compaction algorithm is to find a stack of overlapping delta layers which will be turned into an image layer. This operation is exponential in terms of the number of matching layers and we do it roughly every 20 seconds. ## Summary of changes Only check if a new image layer is required if we've ingested a certain amount of WAL since the last check. The amount of wal is expressed in terms of multiples of checkpoint distance, with the intuition being that that there's little point doing the check if we only have two new L1 layers (not enough to create a new image).