On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:52, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > 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?
We can. Currently the init script sources that and passes the relevant options directly. I'd be +1 on having the init script call couch much more blindly and let /usr/bin/couchdb deal with sourcing the defaults. This would obviate the need for passing arguments to erlang because ERL_(A|Z)?FLAGS could be used instead. I can write this if you don't have time, but your sh-fu is probably better than mine.
