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From: Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com>
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:24:21 -0700
Subject: max_document_size limits on hosted services?
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I've had a few reports from TouchDB users of problems replicating large doc=
uments up to hosted services (IrisCouch or Cloudant). The symptom is that T=
ouchDB uploads ~200k of JSON via _bulk_docs and then either gets a 503 erro=
r or just a dropped connection. I'm wondering whether this is a symptom of =
hitting a server-side limit on the maximum size of a document body.

Looking through the CouchDB config I see a couchdb.max_document_size settin=
g, but it defaults to 4GB, which should be more than sufficient :) It's als=
o set to 4GB on my basic IrisCouch account. Is there some other limit on do=
cument size, or known bugs that would cause a server error with very large =
JSON documents?

=97Jens=