Hwy...not sure if this helps but Robert wrote a really good post about it here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6676972/moving-a-shard-from-one-bigcouch-server-to-another-for-balancing Big couch is also based on the dynamo white paper which is pretty good read in general On Oct 17, 2013 8:47 AM, "Dan Santner" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a bigcouch cluster. It was easy enough to setup but getting > info on tuning etc is pretty much impossible from what I can tell. I have > posted to the bigcouch mail list with some success but it's not real > active....unlike this one :). > > Anyway I need a bit more info on to dig into some issues I'm having but it > seems a little opaque. I have to admit it seems I've had more issues than > success running bigcouch. it was easy to setup but seems much more prone > to issues than when I ran a single node....which I guess is obvious. > > Anyway sorry to ramble. I have a strange issue that I posted on the > bigcouch mail list and I really don't even understand how the shards work > and looking for more in depth information....if anyone knows where to find > it. At a minium I'd like to know some sort of info on what all the > dbs/fields in the 5986 admin database are for.
