On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Confirmed after a quick skim that compaction doesn't stop retrying.
