For posterity, this got resolved here: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions/2997
Best Jan > On 10. Jul 2020, at 20:15, Cluxter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I am using the official Docker image of CouchDB, v3.1.0. > > I created a couchdb.ini file in which I put my custom CouchDB parameters. I > know this file is taken into account by CouchDB because I checked in > Fauxton/Configuration and my custom settings are shown. > > The configuration is default except that I added this: > > [couchdb] > single_node = true > > Now, I want to limit autocompaction to a time window from 04:00 am to 5:30 > am, and I want this to be as strict as possible. So I added these > parameters in the same file: > > [smoosh.overnight_channel] > from = 04:00 > to = 05:30 > strict_window = true > > > Then I started to insert 3 millions of documents in one database one by one > using ApacheBench like this: > > ab -r -n 3000000 -c 1000 -p data.json -T "application/json" -A > admin:password "http://localhost:5984/benchmark"; > > and "data.json" contains: > > { > "text": "Some text" > } > > > It works very well, I get about 10,000 inserts/s. > But very quickly an autocompaction task is run and slows everything down to > about 2,000 inserts/s. I checked that in Fauxton/Active tasks/All tasks, > there are clearly a couple of compaction jobs running that I never asked > for. The thing is: I'm not doing all this between 4am and 5:30am and the > time of my computer is right. > > So it looks like the restriction to the time window doesn't work. > > Am I doing something wrong or missing something? > > Thanks. > > Kind regards, > > Baptiste Rebillard
