Jason from Iriscouch was able to fix the issue. I just wanted to share his findings:
As you might have suspected, it was another limit. This will be the > fourth limit your application hit: first open files in the OS, then > open database, then ETS tables. If I am correct then we are hitting > the internal Erlang process limit. Thanks for all your responses! On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Gregor Martynus <[email protected]>wrote: > I experience massive reliability issues with continuous replications in my > app. Each user has an own profile db with a continuous replication to a > central database. Numbers: ~1800 dbs & ~2600 continuous replications > (using _replicator db), ~200 did not get started. > > My hope is that others faced these issues before and found ways to fix or > work around them. So if you are a developer or know developers that have a > similar couchDB setup, would you mind to get me in touch? Thanks for your > help! > > Tech info: > couchDB 1.1.1 (iriscouch) > max_dbs_open is set to 5000 > no errors show up in _log > _replicate does not accept POST requests anymore > new replications from _replicator docs do not get picked up >
