I hope couchdb is not at /dev/mapper/system-var :) you need some free space, because couch is copying all the latest, non-conflicting documents over to a new file and afterwards swaps out the old database file with the newly created one.
On 14.05.2010, at 10:00, Chris Adams wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
