Did you run ldconfig after you set the xulrunner settings? I did that to myself last time I updated a Ubuntu box where I'd installed couchdb from source. I updated the xulrunner.conf, but forgot to run ldconfig, and got pretty much what you are describing.
David Caylor On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Gordon Leland Hempton <[email protected]>wrote: > After looking at the logs, it looks pretty bad: > > [Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:57:28 GMT] [info] [<0.12883.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'GET' > > /trademark/_design/Trademark/_view/by_filingDate?limit=10&stale=ok&descending=true&include_docs=true > 200 > > [Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:57:52 GMT] [error] [emulator] Error in process > <0.12957.0> with exit value: {badarg,[{erlang,binary_to_term,[<<1885695232 > > bytes>>]},{couch_file,pread_term,2},{couch_db,make_doc,5},{couch_db,open_doc_int,3},{couch_view_updater,load_doc,5},{couch_view_updater,'-update/2-fun-2-',8},{couch_btree,stream_kv_node2,8... > > Anyone know where to start? > > I am running Ubuntu 10.04 server with couchdb 1.0 installed from source. I > have made sure the xulrunner settings are correct. > > Thanks, > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Gordon Leland Hempton > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I am working with a database of ~10 mil docs and 30GB size. I am trying > to > > build a view consisting of a single field as the key and a null document. > > > > After creating the view and trying to access it, the couchdb beam.smp > > command eventually goes up to 12.3GB virtual memory and uses 3.7GB of > > physical memory. Memory is clearly the bottleneck as the CPU usage is > around > > 5-15%. My system only has 4GB of memory so naturally all this paging is > > slowing everything down to a crawl. > > > > After a few minutes this usage will go back down, but it will get to the > > same levels every time I access the view (which is still building and has > > been for 12 hours). > > > > Is this normal? How can I improve this? > > > > -- > > Gordon L. Hempton > > http://componentlab.com > > http://hempton.com > > > > > > -- > Gordon L. Hempton > http://componentlab.com > http://hempton.com >
