Hrm, strike one. Ok. Next thing to try is subtly different. stop couchdb, delete the .compact file, but then make a new, empty .compact file (so ’touch /path/to/dbname.compact’), start couchdb and compact.
B. On 10 Jan 2014, at 12:42, Igor Klimer <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I've already done that after the very fist attempt at compaction (the > one that failed because of lack of disk space). And it resulted in the second > fail (on Windows), then the same on Linux - I always deleted the incomplete > (about 50% of the database, around 50GB) .compact file before running the > compaction again. So I was always doing compaction from scratch. > > Best regards, > Igor Klimer > ________________________________________ > Od: Robert Samuel Newson [[email protected]] > Wysłano: 10 stycznia 2014 13:08 > Do: user > Temat: Re: Error during compaction > > Thanks! that’s very useful. Hitting end of disk certainly feels like a cause > here. Since the compaction has never completed, I suggest we redo compaction > from scratch. > > 1) stop couchdb > 2) delete (or move aside) the dbname.compact file for this database > 3) start couchdb > 4) compact the db > > Whether it works or not, please let us know. > > B. > > On 10 Jan 2014, at 08:25, Igor Klimer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Given that you’re at 100Gb and compacting for the first time, can you tell >>> us if you were running on older couchdb versions that 1.2.0 between db >>> creation and today? >> >> No, we've been running 1.2.0 from the start (around Oct 2012), then switched >> to Ubuntu and 1.5.0. >> >>> Do you have free disk space? >> Yes, there's about 150% of the DB's size worth of free space :) I forgot to >> mention ("OK, here we go, the user will confess to some sin he committed and >> is ashamed of and is most likely the reason for this failure") that we've >> run the compaction once before the error on Windows I mentioned below, but >> it failed because of insufficient disk space - so I double checked before >> running the compaction again if there's enough space. Here's the log, if >> it's any helpful: http://pastebin.com/S1URXN0p >> Do you think it could have left the database in some corrupted state? It >> seems it failed at a different part then the two next attempts (and, as far >> as I understand, compaction is just copying over the database while pruning >> the old revisions and deleted documents). >> >> Thank you for your time and help and best regards, >> Igor Klimer >> ________________________________________ >> Od: Robert Samuel Newson [[email protected]] >> Wysłano: 9 stycznia 2014 17:13 >> Do: user >> Temat: Re: Error during compaction >> >> Do you have free disk space? >> >> On 9 Jan 2014, at 15:25, Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Given that you’re at 100Gb and compacting for the first time, can you tell >>> us if you were running on older couchdb versions that 1.2.0 between db >>> creation and today? >>> >>> B. >>> >>> On 9 Jan 2014, at 14:39, Igor Klimer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I've stumbled upon a peculiar problem while trying to compact (for the >>>> first time) a large(-ish) database (~100GB at that time). At about 50% it >>>> failed with this error: http://pastebin.com/qeaZNHMj >>>> This is from Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with Couchdb 1.2.0. >>>> I figured that it might be a bug in the Windows build (Erlang on Windows? >>>> C'mon, that can't be good ;)) or already fixed in a newer version. Some >>>> time later we migrated the server to a Linux box running Ubuntu 12.04.3 >>>> LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64) and update Couchdb to 1.5.0. >>>> Unfortunately, the same error occurred: http://pastebin.com/feJWu7bN >>>> >>>> I've tried wrapping my head around that error, googling it, checking this >>>> mail list but to no avail :) So if anyone can give me any pointers as to >>>> what might be causing this problem, I'd be very grateful. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Igor Klimer >>>> >>>> (sorry for the footer that will probably follow, unfortunately it's added >>>> for all outgoing external mail...) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > > > ------------------------------- > > getBACK S.A., ul. 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