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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:35:03 +0100
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Subject: Re: Couchdb 0.11 replication issue
From: Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
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Paul,

Usually it's the other way around. The replica DB usually stays smaller than
the source DB (unless the target DB was already populated). This is so
because doing a replica is similar to a DB compaction in many ways.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Paul Bonser <pib@paulbonser.com> wrote:

> I think that's pretty typical behavior, since it's append-only
> re-building any views you have. Try compacting the views and database
> and see if it's still bigger. My guess is that it won't be.
>
> I have a DB which did about the same thing. I replicated from one
> machine to another, and it grew from 209MB to a little less than a GB,
> then after compacting, it's back down to 209MB. Though in my case the
> same thing happened during my initial insert of the data, too, because
> I was reading from the DB as I was doing the inserts (and thus the
> views were being rebuilt, ballooning the file).
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Bharat Bharat <Bharat.Bharat@citrix.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I am seeing a very bizzare issue with couchdb 0.11 replication.
> >
> > When I try to replicate a database from my local machine (mac OSX) to a
> > remote machine( on a different network), it replicates all documents but
> > size of the document on the remote machine goes up around 10 times and it
> > eventually fails.
> >
> > eg: Host machine: 450 docs, ~45 MB
> >     Target machine after replication: 450 docs, ~ 400 MB
> >
> > Interestingly, the other way works fine. Ie, if I try to pull this
> database
> > from host machine to this remote machine, it replicates fine.
> >
> > Has anyone encountered this or something similar? I dont have big
> > attachments.
> >
> > Thanks very much!
>
>
>
> --
> Paul Bonser
> http://probablyprogramming.com
>


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