On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:08, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:05, Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am well aware that a crash report with no information is useless, >> but I cannot find any logs that tell me what happened. So my question >> is: >> >> 1. Where should I be looking for information about the crash? > > You could try to turn on debug-level logs to see what happens right > before it goes down. Also, is there any memory pressure on the server? > You might also want to check your syslog. > >> 2. What is the best way to auto restart couch on Ubuntu whenever this >> happens? > > I think you can just use normal monitoring services (monit, > supervisor, that kind of thing).
There's heartbeat option (-r X) which will restart the server after X seconds if it dies. If you're starting couchdb from an init script you may also find /etc/default/couchdb (or something equivalent in your distro) is a good place to set this.
