Hi, I have left an application populating couchdb with tweets on a dev server running for a few days.
At one point there were 1.7 million documents, and the database was using approx. 8GB. One day later there were 1.71 million documents, but the DB had filled the whole disk (20 GB). This looks strange, only 100 000 new docs, using more space than the 1.7 million that were previously there. All the documents were created by the same script. What happened during this day was insertion of documents, one replication (before the disk was filled), few get _all_docs queries, and I doubt that any view has been refreshed. There has not been any update running on the docs. Logs show errors related to the no space left on device, but nothing before that. I have copied the 20GB couchdb database file to a larger disk to get able to trigger a replication, and the replicated version only uses a bit more than 8 GB. Any explanation of the cause of the huge jump in space usage by the database? couchdb version is 1.1.0 is I remember well. Thanks. -- * Mehdi El Fadil <http://be.linkedin.com/in/elfadme> <http://mango-is.com> *
