Yeah, the optional second argument —for usign bulk save semantics— defaults to false.
Also, there's an option where you can set how many documents to batch save at a time. I don't remember the default, but I've had good luck saving with anywhere between 500 and 2000 docs. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Tom Nichols <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I'm using save_doc, I just need to pass 'true' as a second argument? > > I posted the question here because I assumed the performance > bottleneck was on the CouchDB end, not my ruby script. Am I wrong? I > assumed if I was running 20 "slow" ruby scripts they would peg the > CPU. The fact that I'm not seeing that makes me think there is some > blocking/ synchronization that is making the CouchDB server slow....? > > Thanks again. > -Tom > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Zachary Zolton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Short answer: use db.save_doc(hash, true) for bulk_docs behavior. >> >> Also, consider moving this thread to the CouchRest Google Group: >> http://groups.google.com/group/couchrest/topics >> >> Cheers, >> zdzolton >> >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Tom Nichols <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, I have some questions about insert performance. >>> >>> I have a single CouchDB 0.9.0 node running on small EC2 instance. I >>> attached a huge EBS volume to it and mounted it where CouchDB's data >>> files are stored. I fired up about ruby scripts running inserts and >>> after a weekend I only have about 30GB/ 12M rows of data... Which >>> seems small. 'top' tells me that my CPU is only about 30% utilized. >>> >>> Any idea what I might be doing wrong? I pretty much just followed >>> these instructions: >>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Amazon_EC2 >>> >>> My ruby script looks like this: >>> #!/usr/bin/env ruby >>> #Script to load random data into CouchDB >>> >>> require 'rubygems' >>> require 'couchrest' >>> >>> db = CouchRest.database! "http://127.0.0.1:5984/#{ARGV[0]}"; >>> puts "Created database: #{ARGV[0]}" >>> >>> max = 9999999999999999 >>> while 1 >>> puts 'loading...' >>> for val in 0..max >>> db.save_doc({ :key => val, 'val one' => "val ${val}", >>> 'val2' => "#{ARGV[1]} #{val}" }) >>> end >>> end >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance... >>> >> >
