Hi Luke, thanks, that's a great idea. I will follow this advice.
How about memory and CPU? Did you had to limit couchdb? For elasticsearch's JVM i know you can set 'max-mem' ... Thomas ________________________________________ From: Luke Driscoll [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CouchDB and Elasticsearch on same machine We run this set up in QA with no real trouble, although we don't have very high traffic on that box. I would suggest you give the box a couple of cnames, like test-couchdb and test-elasticsearch; then when you create the indices on test-elasticsearch you point them to test-couchdb; this should help separation in the future. Luke On 3 September 2012 21:39, Thomas Hommers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > for a first small "testing" deployment of our application I would like to > run CouchDB and elasticsearch on the same machine to save some costs. After > demand grows i plan to separate them. > > Does anybody have experience with this, any specific issues to take care > of? > > I remember that several times i faced a problem with heavy CPU + memory > usage of couchdb. Is there any way to limit this, so it will nicely > co-exists with Elasticsearch? I read that elasticsearch makes trouble when > the system starts swaping ... > > Really appreciate any thoughts and comments. > > Thanks in advance! > Thomas
