ESX or ESXi? Also I'd check that you have the latest possible pvscsi and VMware balloon kernel modules. When I ran an ESXi server, I found that the pvscsi driver sometimes had problems (on Windows too), and eventually they put out new guest additions. On May 22, 2012 6:20 PM, "Dave Cottlehuber" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 23:38, Wendall Cada <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This appears to be an ESX Hypervisor crash. CouchDB doesn't do anything > > that any other app can do in terms of crashing your hypervisor. Probably > a > > VMWare bug, so check your host server logs and see if you can isolate > what > > is causing the crash. IMO, this has nothing whatsoever to do with > CouchDB, > > other than it happened to be the application putting load on the server > at > > the time. > > > > Wendall > > > > > > > +1 to all that. > > As a general caution, people who run databases (SQL or NoSQL) on > hypervisors with virtualised disk IO (let alone encrypted FS partitions) > should not be surprised if performance is less than stellar. I'm sure you > have a good reason for all this! > > A+ > Dave >
