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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-901:
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Its not a full switch to emonk, just a refactor to allow supporting emonk as 
well as some other bits to make the various server process handling less funky.

The other major thing I did was to split couch_query_servers into two sets of 
modules. couch_view_server for map/reduce views, and couch_app_server for 
everything else. Each set of modules has an API module and a set of 
implementation modules. For instance:

couch_view_server.erl 
couch_view_server_emonk.erl
couch_view_server_erlang.erl
couch_view_server_os.erl

All calls from external code go to couch_view_server that returns an opaque 
term that ends up calling out to the actual implementation module.

The main things missing from my code are finishing the implementations for the 
non-emonk app servers and some refactoring in a few places so that things like 
couch_view_server_os.erl and couch_app_server_os.erl share the same code for 
managing OS level processes. The couch_proc_manager.erl in Adam's patch looks 
like exactly what I need for this so that'll help.



> refactor os process management
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-901
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-901
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Database Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1
>            Reporter: Adam Kocoloski
>             Fix For: 1.1
>
>
> Wanted to make sure this doesn't get forgotten in the planning for 1.1.  Paul 
> Davis and I independently refactored couch_query_servers.  Paul's work is 
> much more comprehensive and includes a switch to emonk:
> http://github.com/davisp/couchdb/tree/emonk
> The work I did is here
> http://github.com/kocolosk/couchdb/tree/COUCHDB-901
> One feature not included in that branch is the ability to limit the number of 
> OS processes.  Should be simple to add if my work ends up being merged.  I 
> did the refactor because I was having problems with couch_query_servers 
> "forgetting" about OS processes in BigCouch.  One of the ets tables held by 
> couch_query_servers would list thousands of processes (and in fact there were 
> thousands of spawned couchjs), but another table would claim that only two 
> were running.  After digging through the code a while I became frustrated 
> with all of the tracking of multiple ets tables and rewrote a server that 
> used only one table.  Other changes include
> * ability to reuse an OS process when the client that requested it dies.
> * better behavior under config changes - doesn't kill all query servers when 
> [query_servers] or [native_query_servers] block changes

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