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Joshua Bronson commented on COUCHDB-275: ---------------------------------------- updated to r749851 as jan___ in #couchdb told me about a file descriptor leak prior to r748299, and retried compaction. this time compaction appears to have successfully completed, at least the following was output to couch.log: [Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:19:23 GMT] [debug] [<0.8952.0>] CouchDB swapping files /var/lib/couchdb/melkjug.couch and /var/lib/couchdb/melkjug.couch.compact. however, 11 seconds later (adjusting for my local time of GMT-5) the erlang vm appears to have crashed again: the following was output to stderr: heart: Wed Mar 4 18:19:34 2009: heart-beat time-out. heart: Wed Mar 4 18:19:39 2009: Unable to kill old process, kill failed (tried multiple times). heart: Wed Mar 4 18:19:40 2009: Executed "/usr/bin/couchdb -k". Terminating. > couch crashes erlang vm under heavy load > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-275 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-275 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.9 > Environment: Linux melkjug.com 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Wed Feb 13 > 14:28:49 EST 2008 x86_64 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > Reporter: Joshua Bronson > > I clicked "Compact" in futon for my 11G database at 9:04 AM EST: > [Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:04:32 GMT] [info] [<0.59.0>] Starting compaction for db > "melkjug" > An hour and a half later it was 85% finished and then the following was > output to stderr: > heart: Mon Mar 2 10:33:20 2009: heart-beat time-out. > /usr/bin/couchdb: line 255: echo: write error: Broken pipe > heart: Mon Mar 2 10:33:22 2009: Executed "/usr/bin/couchdb -k". Terminating. > I am retaining my 4.3G melkjug.couch.compact file in case it's useful in > debugging this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.