Do you have validate_doc_update in some design document, or, worse, in multiple design documents?
In my experience, that misfeature is the single biggest cause of performance problems. Given the CPU usage, that might be it, even with not too many writes. On 18 January 2013 04:00, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Which version of couchdb > > > > Which version of couchdb > > 1.2.1 > > > Authenticated requests > > Just localhost requests with the admin credentials in the url. > > BTW, I just found out that couch was maxing out my cpu, unlike what I said > in my initial post. I tried it on a large ec2 instance instead of medium > and it is noticeably faster, but I haven't measured it yet. I just assumed > it was IO bound. >
