2013/5/1 Robert Newson <[email protected]>: > I'd set it to 10000 and then forget it about it. That sounds a bit high.
> File descriptors are pretty cheap these days. That's what I thought about inodes as well but we've already hit that wall (tip: use xfs when using a lot of small files). Pieter. > > On 1 May 2013 10:29, Pieter van der Eems > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2013/5/1 Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>: >>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Pieter van der Eems >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 2013/5/1 Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>: >>>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pieter van der Eems >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is the file descriptor a couchdb limit that I can change (where?) or a >>>>>>> filesystem limit (ext4, we've already hit ext4 limit before but the >>>>>>> errors were different). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> man ulimit(3) >>>>>> >>>>>> - benoit >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> in clear, either use the ulimit command to increase the limits at >>>>> runtime or increase them either in security.conf or limits.conf >>>>> depending on your system. >>>> Ubuntu 11.10 (it needs updating, just haven't had the time yet). >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Probably /etc/security/limits.conf in your case. >>>> That looks like the one. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'm actually >>>>> interrested by the limit you already have, can you paste the result of >>>>> ` ulimit -n` ? >>>> >>>> It's 1024 >>>> That seems to be the default. >>>> My own desktop (Ubuntu 12.04) has the same. >>>> >>>> We have more than that number of databases (1134 as of now). >>>> >>> >>> Thanks, you should try to slowly iincrease the limits of the user >>> launching couchdb to test which one is good for you, it all depends on >>> the number of max dbs opened, number of requests and view calculated >>> at the same time >> Hmm. I really should find the time to install a test server for this >> and create a simulation. Currently the only way to "test" this is on a >> live environment that serves live customers. >> >> For now I've set it to 2048. >> >> Regards, >> Pieter.
