You probably have an empty .compact file for the Chef DB. Remove that file and try again. We fixed this bug in a newer CouchDB release (can't remember which one off the top of my head). Cheers,
Adam On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Spike Grobstein <sp...@ticketevolution.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Wow. You are correct. I can't believe I never thought to look at the logs. I > guess when the HTTP requests never failed, I didn't think to look there. > > https://gist.github.com/4149393 > > It's loading up with errors related to > > [Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:06:54 GMT] [error] [emulator] Error in process > <0.20250.6> with exit value: > {{badmatch,no_valid_header},[{couch_db_updater,start_copy_compact,1}]} > > I have almost no experience with couch administration outside of what I've > done with chef. > > What could be the reason for this? > > Thanks! > > > ...spike > > > On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > >> Is the compaction completing successfully? The log should indicate that. >> >> >> On 26 November 2012 16:56, Spike Grobstein <sp...@ticketevolution.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi CouchDB mailing list, >>> >>> I've been running Chef Server since about March and continue to run out of >>> space. I've emailed the Chef mailing list and although they were able to >>> help, none of their answers successfully solved my problem. >>> >>> I'm running CouchDB v1.0.1: >>> >>> chef-server:~$ curl localhost:5984 >>> {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"1.0.1"} >>> >>> And I have a script running daily via cron that compacts the data and the >>> views: >>> >>> https://gist.github.com/4091940 >>> >>> unfortunately, this has not halted the growth of used space on my couchdb >>> partition. It doesn't seem to be cleaning up deleted documents: >>> >>> chef-server:~$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:5984/chef >>> >>> {"db_name":"chef","doc_count":1235,"doc_del_count":10212,"update_seq":536514,"purge_seq":0,"compact_running":false,"disk_size":45922017384,"instance_start_time":"1353948344088704","disk_format_version":5,"committed_update_seq":536514} >>> >>> Currently, the couchdb partition is using up 43GB of the 60GB allocated to >>> it. Is there anything I can do? >>> >>> The server is Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with all of the latest packages. I've >>> tried rebooting the server and restarting the couchdb daemon (as suggested >>> on the chef mailing list), but to no avail. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> ...spike >
