On 16 Jun 2010, at 23:59, Randall Leeds wrote: > I'd really like to sort out the situation with resource limits. > > My patch to allow setting a larger mochiweb connection limit was > committed (COUCHDB-705), but currently there's no easy user story for > increasing things like ERL_MAX_PORTS. I'd also be nice if we could > allow people to pass arbitrary flags to the vm. For example, I only > recently discovered how nice the +A option is. Unfortunately, the > solution I have in production to avoid clobbering the init script is > to have the couchdb user use bash as a login shell and export > ERL_MAX_PORTS and ERL_ZFLAGS in .bash_profile. I think this is a > really hackish thing to do to a daemon.
Why can't we just use /etc/defaults/couchdb for this?
