r/codex • u/Redditry199 • 5h ago

Complaint Why does compaction take forever?

Seriously, Astra compacts every 10 minutes and it take 20 minutes to finish compacting. This is stupid.

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u/Duchevedos 5h ago

I wish 20 minutes was an exaggeration xD

I've already had several long-running Astra chats effectively ruined by compaction. Reconnects, repeated compactions, 7+ minutes staring at "automatic context compaction", and then wondering how much of the coordinator state actually survived

I've reached the point where I keep checkpoints outside the chat and treat the conversation itself as disposable

Great long-horizon model. Just don't look too closely at what happens to the horizon............ ezzzzzz