Hi there, I'm a little confused by the behaviour of couchdb's compact command, and I suspect the solution is really quite simple, but I'm still new to couchdb, so please excuse the noobish question:
I'm trying to compact a 5.6gb couchdb database that's been generated by chef, using this command: curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/chef/_compact However, when I check the status back, couch doesn't seem to be compacting: curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/chef/ I'm following the insturctions here - http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction Why might it not start compacting when I call the compact command like this? The VM that's running the couchdb database is almost at capacity disk space wise, and I'm using couchdb version 0.10.0 (I've gisted this info here http://gist.github.com/400920, and the output from the compact commands here ) Thanks! Chris Adams
