On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Aurélien Bénel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> One of the application we developed with CouchDB is compute-intensive.
> We are now testing it with 20 simultaneous users updating data and
> visualizing them with lists and shows.
>
> From time to time, we get the following error:
>
> {"error":"EXIT","reason":"{system_limit,
> [{erlang,spawn_opt,
> [proc_lib,init_p,
> [couch_view,
> [couch_secondary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.33.0>],
> gen,init_it,
> [gen_server,<0.100.0>,<0.100.0>,couch_view_group,
> ... 8< ... 8< ... 8< ...
> [link]]},
> {proc_lib,start_link,5},
> {couch_view_group,start_link,1},
> {couch_view,handle_call,3},
> {gen_server,handle_msg,5},
> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}"}
>
> Which system limit is it all about? Is there a way to avoid having this error
> again?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Aurélien
That looks like a limit on the number of Erlang processes in the VM. The
default limit is 32768. You can raise the maximum number of processes by
starting the VM with e.g. erl +P 65536, but in my experience bumping into this
limit means something else is going wrong. Regards,
Adam
