OK, but that doesn't mean q=1 is 100% right, either. It sounds like we're converging on something like q=2 or q=4 for a single node installation default. Fine! :)
Would you be willing to help with the documentation step so we can get all of the settings hammered out? As I said in my email: > There's an open ticket to document these settings, which is the first > step: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/issues/278 > Once we have that, we can automate making those settings available at > install time. -Joan "first things first" Touzet On 2019-07-10 17:22, ermouth wrote: >> And why is q=8 *always* right for a single-node install? To me, it's >> not. > > 8-cores took ~8% of x86 market at 1st quarter of 2019. 4-cores took 62%. > 8-cores of other architectures are even more rare. Single node Couch is > probably a basis of smth small, so it’s reasonable to think single node > Couch is much more likely, I’d say order of magnitude, is installed on smth > having 6 or less cores. > > Also it’s more likely that beefy production instances are managed by > qualified devops, who tune ini-s before doing things. From a newbie you > would expect installation with defaults. > > At least from above POV q=8 for a single node is definitely suboptimal for > most installations. > > ermouth >
