It seems Domino has been playing a joke on me, and has been queueing my
requests to compact mail databases instead of actually compacting them.

I found a notes.ini variable that I can set to make future compacts
happen immediately, but what about the queued ones? Updall is supposed
to take care of these, but it doesn't seem to.

Does anyone know where this queue is located, how I can view what
activities are in it, and how I can force updall to execute the commands
on my mark?

Matt Fries wrote:

If you do a "load compact " at the console there is
nothing queued.
How did YOU request your requests?

which ini variable?

updall and compact are two completely different tasks

Peter Howard wrote:

In Domino Administrator, in the Files tab, I right-clicked on a mail
database, and chose Compact.

Debug_Compact_Immediately=1

I added that line, and even rebooted the whole OS, but it still queues
the darn Compact requests.