Package: couchdb Version: 0.11.0-2.3 Severity: normal
When I invoke the following command to trigger a database compaction: curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:5984/db/_compact CouchDB will rebuild its database file and clean up old revisions and so on. This compaction basically runs successful and afterwards the database got shrinked from some gigabytes to about 300MB here. The database file then looks like this: user@host:$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/couchdb/0.11.0/db.couch -rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 344699040 2011-02-04 12:11 /var/lib/couchdb/0.11.0/db.couch The problem is, that after a compaction run, CouchDB still has an open file descriptor on the deleted db.couch file (that was previously so large): user@host:~$ sudo lsof | grep -i couchdb | grep -i delete beam.smp 6596 couchdb 14u REG 254,7 1839379307 133 /var/lib/couchdb/0.11.0/db.couch (deleted) Obviously the gained free space is then only returned when I stop/start the CouchDB instance to force it closing the open file handle. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages couchdb depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii erlang-base [erlang-abi 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP virtual machine and bas ii erlang-crypto 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP cryptographic modules ii erlang-inets 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP Internet clients and se ii erlang-ssl 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP implementation of SSL ii erlang-tools 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP various tools ii erlang-xmerl 1:14.a-dfsg-3 Erlang/OTP XML tools ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcurl3 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libicu44 4.4.1-7 International Components for Unico ii libjs-jquery 1.4.2-2 JavaScript library for dynamic web ii libmozjs2d 1.9.1.16-4 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mawk 1.3.3-15 a pattern scanning and text proces ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities couchdb recommends no packages. couchdb suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
