On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Jeff Macdonald <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Damien Katz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, the limit is 100 open dbs at a time. Databases that are being >>> compacted or having views built will cause the dbs to remain open even if no >>> clients are actively access the server. Continuous replication shouldn't >>> keep the dbs open unless it's actively replicatng changes. >>> >>> You can up the open db limit to whatever you want, but you might have to >>> boost the open files allowable in the OS settings somewhere. >>> >>> If you are hitting the limit, but don't have enough clients accessing the >>> dbs, and have no views being built and no compactions happening, it might be >>> bug in CouchDB. >> >> I have 1 client program using Net::CouchDB, no views yet, no >> compactions. I'll try to create a small test program tomorrow to see >> if I can duplicate the conditions. > > > hmmm.... before I do this, maybe I'm mis-understanding what an active > db is. Does it mean there is some activity with a database, or that a > database simply exists? > > -- > Jeff Macdonald > Ayer, MA >
An active DB is one that has an open file handle being accessed by some part of CouchDB. Paul Davis
