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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:24:14 +0000
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Subject: Re: CouchDB, linux & clean shutdowns
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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Can you describe "it was repeatedly crashing with gen_server timeouts"
in more detail? This sounds non-fatal to me but can look alarming if
you're not used to the erlang approach to error handling. It might be
that you're restarting for no good reason.

B.

On 20 March 2012 14:20, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:
> Also we don't fsync views at all, so if you built the view and then
> killed couchdb very quickly, the data didn't reach the platters.
>
> I'll note that you really, *really*, want to set delayed_commits to
> false if using couchdb in production. This strongly guarantees that
> your database updates are preserved in the event of a crash.
>
> B.
>
> On 20 March 2012 13:51, Jason Smith <jhs@iriscouch.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se> wrote:
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> On 20 Mar 2012, at 13:23, Alexander Shorin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>>>> <joerlend.schinstad@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> As far as I'm aware, there's no clean way to shutdown CouchDB. It's designed
>>>>> that way. You just kill it.
>>>>
>>>> With _admin permissions:
>>>> curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/_restart -H "Content-Type: application/json"
>>>
>>> Excellent, thanks, I'll give this a try.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se> wrote:
>>>>>> What version are you running?
>>>>>
>>>>> Running 1.2.0a-1160734, compiled from source some time back.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like subversion revision number and a little out of dated. By
>>>> the way, CouchDB repository had been moved to git not so far a long
>>>> ago. Have you tried to update to latest head of 1.2.x branch?
>>>
>>> Yeah, i know it's an old version, I was just curious as to whether there was something I could try before rebuilding the server.
>>
>> Hi, Martin. I wonder if it is related to this issue?
>>
>> CouchDB was deleting .view files if some kinds of errors happened.
>> This will be fixed in the upcoming version 1.2.0. (But I'm not 100%
>> sure that that is your issue.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Iris Couch