Awesome work, great effort Dave. Thanks for seeing this through! Jan --
On Apr 20, 2012, at 23:20 , Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > Woo Homebrew!! http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX updated. > > I recommend upgrading erlang (and other pre-requisites) for better > performance, and specifically for erlang, line numbers in error > messages. > > For the lazy: > > brew remove --force openssl erlang couchdb icu4c spidermonkey nspr > brew update > brew install erlang --no-docs > brew install couchdb > > & you're done. > > ====== > For the pedants: > > There are still some edge cases where the erlang VM seems to die, on > Lion only. This is largely transparent to couchdb users as the couch > shell script wraps erlang and restarts automatically. It was first > reported by Filipe, and Paul, Benoît & Bob have helped me with this > over time. > > I've not been able to narrow down why this happens & how to fix it, > but you might be able to help; > > references: > https://gist.github.com/2219748 > https://gist.github.com/1199903 > > ``` > brew erlang --no-docs > cd /tmp && curl -#LO https://raw.github.com/gist/2219748/erlbork.erl > erlc +debug_info erlbork.erl > erl -run erlbork > > ## & in another term I usually open > lldb process attach -n beam.smp > c > ``` > and wait > > You'll get this independent of erlang version. The code's highly > contrived to to restart erlang continuously while running md5_init. > > If you > Moving to openssl 1.0.1 *noticeably* reduces the frequency of this > failure (for me) but I can't see how this is apparent in the output I > get from lldb, other than the erlang code is only calling md5_init > repeatedly. > > To use erlang with openssl 1.0.1: > brew remove --force erlang openssl > # in openssl.rb, update the openssl url and comment out the sha > # in erlang.rb, add a depends_on "openssl" > brew install erlang --no-docs > > and wait again. > > Insights very welcome! > Dave
