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From: Chris Adams <chris.adams@headshift.com>
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Subject: Query about chef compaction - why would it fail silently?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:00:53 +0100
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Hi there,

I'm a little confused by the behaviour of couchdb's compact command, and =
I suspect the solution is really quite simple, but I'm still new to =
couchdb, so please excuse the noobish question:

I'm trying to compact a 5.6gb couchdb database that's been generated by =
chef, using this command:

curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/chef/_compact

However, when I check the status back, couch doesn't seem to be =
compacting:

curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/chef/

I'm following the insturctions here - =
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction=20

Why might it not start compacting when I call the compact command like =
this? =20

The VM that's running the couchdb database is almost at capacity disk =
space wise, and I'm using couchdb version 0.10.0 (I've gisted this info =
here http://gist.github.com/400920, and the output from the compact =
commands here )

Thanks!

Chris Adams


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