On Feb 18, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 Jan 2014, at 20:08 , Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> However there is a pathological situation where you are >> updating faster than the compactor can run, and you will get an infinite >> loop (plus very heavy i/o and filesystem waste as the compactor is >> basically duplicating your .couch into a .couch.compact forever). > > Just a little clarification on this point: CouchDB will try to catch up, > I think 10 times, before giving up and reporting the result in the logs. > > Best > Jan > --
I'm not aware of any limit to the number of iterations executed by the compactor. Regards, Adam
