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-Damien

On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:37 AM, John Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm really eager to write up a great couchdb success story about how  
> my
> stealth mode startup has used couchdb to great effect.... but I  
> can't yet,
> since there is at least one show stopper for me -- specifically, this:
>
> [info] [<0.84.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - "GET /products/_design 
> %2Fproduct_with_offer"
> 304
>
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 2280657000 bytes of memory (of type  
> "heap").
> Aborted
>
> Which I get when it tries to update my view, which looks like this
> (cut/pasted from Futon):
>
> {
>   "all": {
>       "map": "\n\t\t\t\tfunction(doc) { \n\t\t\t\t\tif ('Product' ==
> doc.type) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\temit([doc._id, 0], doc)\n\t\t\t\t\t} else if
> ('Offer' == doc.type) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\temit([doc.product, 1],
> doc)\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t"
>   }
> }
>
> Here it is again from the source code I use to create it (which uses  
> my home
> grown client library but should be easy to understand and is more  
> readable):
>
>    create_or_replace_view(database, "product_with_offer", {
>        "all": {
>            "map": """
>                function(doc) {
>                    if ('Product' == doc.type) {
>                        emit([doc._id, 0], doc)
>                    } else if ('Offer' == doc.type) {
>                        emit([doc.product, 1], doc)
>                    }
>                }
>            """
>        }
>    })
>
> The database has 12,492 documents and is compacted to a size of 85.4m.
>
> The machine this is running on only has 2 gigs of memory and 1 gig  
> of swap
> with over 1gig of other stuff running all the time, so obviously the  
> basic
> problem is that couchdb is trying to allocate more memory than is  
> available
> and one solution would be to add RAM to the box, but it really seems  
> to me
> as if generating a view on a dataset that is 85.4 megs should not  
> require
> over 2 gigs of RAM.  Am I doing something stupid in my view code?  I  
> am out
> of ideas on what to investigate next.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -
> John
>
> P.S. There are a few other non show-stopper issues that I've run  
> into with
> couchdb (e.g. the document counts in Futon being wrong in various
> situations) but other than the show stopper above, it looks as if it
> would/will be of great value to our product development effort....  
> so much
> so in fact, that thanks to some ugly workarounds (untenable in the  
> long run,
> but doing the trick in the short run) even with this "show stopper"  
> we are
> already using it very successfully to accelerate our development...  
> and we
> have just barely scratched the surface of it's capabilities I am  
> sure.  So
> you can consider this a minor success story already. :)