Hi Frank, Thanks for the followup. Definitely appreciate that the clustering feature adds complexity and is not appropriate for everyone. The only problem with running 1.x is that we are not providing any updates at all to that release series - even security patches.
Was there something in particular that led you to downgrade? Cheers, Adam > On May 11, 2019, at 3:42 AM, Frank Röhm <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]>: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> 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 >>> >> >
