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Subject: Re: Query about chef compaction - why would it fail silently?
From: Sebastian Cohnen <sebastiancohnen@googlemail.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 10:40:16 +0200
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I hope couchdb is not at /dev/mapper/system-var :) you need some free =
space, because couch is copying all the latest, non-conflicting =
documents over to a new file and afterwards swaps out the old database =
file with the newly created one.

On 14.05.2010, at 10:00, Chris Adams wrote:

> Hi there,
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> 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:
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> I'm trying to compact a 5.6gb couchdb database that's been generated =
by chef, using this command:
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> curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/chef/_compact
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> However, when I check the status back, couch doesn't seem to be =
compacting:
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> curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/chef/
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> I'm following the insturctions here - =
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction=20
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> Why might it not start compacting when I call the compact command like =
this? =20
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> 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 )
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> Thanks!
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> Chris Adams
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