If you're using instance storage rather than EBS, you may get better performance by initializing the disks first. [1]
However, this probably isn't relevant if you're simply retrieving docs and not writing them as I assume CouchDB returns the response before writing to the log file. Paul [1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/instance-storage-using.html On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Adam Wolff<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all,We're moving our app towards production, and we're seeing fairly slow > response times from couchdb. Every request to the db appears to take about > 100ms, even for just a plain document. Is this expected? Any hints for > better configuration? We're just running what you get after you do make && > make install on an amazon ec2 big instance, having apt-got erl. We're > running ubuntu intrepid. > > Thanks, > A >
