HI Germain, which CouchDB version are you running?
Cheers Jan -- On 23 Mar 2010, at 02:14, Germain Maurice wrote: > Hi everybody, > > We have a database with more than 8 millions of documents and the size is > more than 450 GB. I wonder if it's a good choice to have all of our docs in > only one file of this size. > > We have issues with replication through every time. We tried both one shot > and continuous replication and we got req_timedout followed by a couchdb > crash. We opened reports bugs you can see here : > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-690 and > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-701 > > Another issue is compaction which doesn't work fine on one of my host. > The compaction is launched on a database which has more than 100 000 > documents (10GB) The compaction starts up, works, and after a while, > stops without any warning or alerts. On a other host the same database > was well compacted. > > We really wonder how couchdb is used in a production environment. How > many documents do you store ? Do you use big databases or small > databases (file size i mean) ? Embedded replication or not ? Compaction > is efficient or not ? > > We are trying to make some developpement in order to avoid the issues we > encounted, we would like some feedback about the best practices in > environment production. > > Best regards, > Germain
