On 12 Oct 2010, at 20:55, Randall Leeds wrote: > 1) Based on what I saw in thy MySQL package, stop() asks CouchDB to > quit and then checks every second (up to 60 seconds) to see if it's > shut down before forcibly killing the process. This avoids an issue > where restart could sometimes crash the new CouchDB process with > EADDRINUSE when it tries to bind the server socket by making sure that > the old CouchDB process is actually stopped before starting the new > one.
Why bother? CouchDB is designed to be kill -9'd. :)
