In the end I indeed downgraded to couchdb v1.5 because I don’t use all this cluster feature and prefer to handle one file for each db ;) So all is running again but with couch 1.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 And with Futon instead of Fauxton.
Thanks. frank > Am 02.05.2019 um 15:21 schrieb Jan Lehnardt <m...@jan.io>: > > Glad this worked out. Quick tip then, unless you run this on an 8-core (or > more) machine, you might want to look into reducing your q for this database. > q=2 or $num_cores is a good rule of thumb. You can use our couch-continuum > tool to migrate an existing db: https://npmjs.com/couch-continuum > > Cheers > Jan > — > >> On 2. May 2019, at 14:17, Frank Röhm <francwal...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> OK, I found it. >> In the 8 shards subdirectories (from 00000000-1fffffff to e0000000-ffffffff) >> there was still 8 frwiki directories (frwiki.1510609658.couch) with each 5 >> GB. >> I deleted them with: >> >> find . -name frwiki.1510609658.couch -delete >> >> from the shards dir and gone they are. >> Hopefully it won’t affect my CouchDB, but as I heard this is very robust ;) >> >> I think I can stick to the v2.x now, no need to downgrade now, ouff. >> >> frank >> >>> Am 02.05.2019 um 07:25 schrieb Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org>: >>> >>> Look for a .deleted directory under your data/ directory. The files may not >>> have been deleted but moved aside due to the enable_database_recovery >>> setting, or because the DB was still in use when you restarted CouchDB. >>> >>> Another useful command is: >>> >>> $ du -sh /opt/couchdb/data/* >>> >>> which should tell you where the storage is being used. Does this show >>> anything useful to you? >>> >>> -Joan >>> >>>> On 2019-05-01 2:22 p.m., Frank Walter wrote: >>>> Hello >>>> I have CouchDB v2.3.1 (on Ubuntu 14.04) and I use it only for creating >>>> Wikipedia databases with mwscrape. >>>> My shards folder was too big, over 50 GB big, so I deleted one big db >>>> (frwiki) which had 32 GB in Fauxton. That db is gone now. >>>> After this, I thought now my shards folder should be about 20 GB but it >>>> is still 52 GB. >>>> I don't find any documentation about that in the CouchDB Doc. >>>> I restarted CouchDB (/etc/init.d/couchdb restart) but nothing changes. >>>> How can I reduce the size of shards? How can I get rid of this ghost-db? >>>> My next step would be, if I cannot solve this issue, to uninstall >>>> CouchDB 2.x and reinstall 1.x, because I dont need that feature of >>>> cluster server anyway. I see only inconvenience for my use. >>>> Thanks >>>> frank >> >
