On 19 October 2012 06:48, Mark Hingston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Apologies if this has been posted already but I couldn't find any related > topics in the archives. I saw what looked like a crash in my couchdb server > the other day - the relevant log section is included below. I'm running > couch version 1.2.0 on an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04.1. > > It took about a day for this issue to get noticed and during that time the > server basically ran out of disk space: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/xvda1 8.0G 7.6G 0 100% / > > And creating small files is possible but creating large ones fails. It seems > possible that the disk filled around the time of the the couch crash because > the end of the log file does seem to be truncated (the last thing I see is > the "{summary, [" and "<<128,0,0,154>>," lines which seem to have been cut > off before the closing braces). > > Also after the crash happened couch didn't seem to actually shutdown, as I > could still see the couchdb erlang process running and couch seemed to be > stuck in a state where no clients could connect to it. After I stopped couch > and cleared off the drive and then restarted the machine clients could > connect to it again and all seemed fine. > > However, it's not obvious to me from the log / shutdown report that this was > related to disk space at all. Should I expect couch to log a warning in a > low disk space situation? Should this situation be recoverable? Can anyone > from the list help shed some light on what happened here? > > Thanks, > Mark
Hard to say from here what happened. Compaction and view creation are 2 activities that can use a fair bit of disk space, but the excerpt from the logs has nothing. Any other info on what was going on at the time? A+ Dave
