Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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1.0.2
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Description
If a client queries a view that is currently updating (without stale=ok), and then closes the connection after a timeout, the resources on the server side are not released (until the view update completes).
If the view update takes a long time, the server will eventually run out of file descriptors (or if the file descriptor limit is very large, runs out of something else; not quite sure what).
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1) set "ulimit -n" for couchdb to 1024 (often the default). Using a much larger limit seems to result in different behavior (possibly CouchDB runs out of some other resource before file descriptors; not sure what).
2) create a database with a view and sufficient number of docs so that generating the view from scratch takes a lot of time
3) query the view repeatedly with a short timeout: for example in bash:
while true; do curl -m1 'http://127.0.0.1:5984/grande/_design/testviews/_view/byDate1?limit=1'; done
4) monitor the number of sockets used with e.g. "netstat -an | grep 5984 | grep CLOSE_WAIT". This should increase all the time.
5) roughly when the number hits 1K, couchdb stops responding completely, and there's large number of error messages written to the log file.