[COUCHDB-275] couch crashes erlang vm under heavy load

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9

Environment

Linux melkjug.com 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Wed Feb 13 14:28:49 EST 2008 x86_64 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joshua Bronson
• Created: 02/Mar/09 15:44
• Updated: 14/May/09 16:56
• Resolved: 14/May/09 16:56

Description

I clicked "Compact" in futon for my 11G database at 9:04 AM EST:

[Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:04:32 GMT] [info] [<0.59.0>] Starting compaction for db "melkjug"

An hour and a half later it was 85% finished and then the following was output to stderr:

heart: Mon Mar 2 10:33:20 2009: heart-beat time-out.
/usr/bin/couchdb: line 255: echo: write error: Broken pipe
heart: Mon Mar 2 10:33:22 2009: Executed "/usr/bin/couchdb -k". Terminating.

I am retaining my 4.3G melkjug.couch.compact file in case it's useful in debugging this.