On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > Making a single view indexing process faster keeps coming up. For one > thing, it's not that easy, otherwise it would have been done by now. > For another, this problem vanishes when you shard (and the BigCouch > merge will bring this to CouchDB).
What does sharding mean in this context? Running CouchDB/BigCouch on multiple servers, or just running multiple processes on a single box? If the latter, why can't we run multiple threads/Erlang processes within a single shard/OS process? If the former, that's kind of silly, in the sense that building indexes (at least for me) is CPU-bound but leaves many of the cores in my server idle. Cheers, Dirkjan
