[chef] Re: Re: couchdb is huge

[Gilles Devaux < >]

Yeah, installing chef server was learning chef 0.8X, the result is a
bit of a mess, as are my first recipes...

Thanks for the info on compacting couchdb, that did the trick.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joshua Miller 
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 wrote:
> sounds like your not running the chef server recipe as it compacts the db 
> for your.  If there is a reason your not running it the easies way is to 
> create a new recipe with these lines in it and run on the server, otherwise 
> you can curl a url like
>
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction
>
> example:
>
> 
 :~$
>  curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST 
> http://localhost:5984/chef/_compact
> {"ok":true}
> 
 :~$
>
> # code for compact in recipe from chef-server recipe
> http_request "compact chef couchDB" do
>  action :post
>  url "#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef/_compact"
>  only_if do
>    begin
>      open("#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef")
>      
> JSON::parse(open("#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef").read)["disk_size"] > 
> 100_000_000
>    rescue OpenURI::HTTPError
>      nil
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> %w(nodes roles registrations clients data_bags data_bag_items users).each 
> do |view|
>  http_request "compact chef couchDB view #{view}" do
>    action :post
>    url "#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef/_compact/#{view}"
>    only_if do
>      begin
>        open("#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef/_design/#{view}/_info")
>        
> JSON::parse(open("#{Chef::Config[:couchdb_url]}/chef/_design/#{view}/_info").read)["view_index"]["disk_size"]
>  > 100_000_000
>      rescue OpenURI::HTTPError
>        nil
>      end
>    end
>  end
> end
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Gilles Devaux wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The couchdb instance on chef-server is getting huge. I have to restart
>> it sometimes because its memory footprint keeps growing but the file
>> itself is becoming humongous:
>> 
 
>>  couchdb]$ ll -h
>> total 90G
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb  90G Sep  8 17:18 chef.couch
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 3.7K Sep  8 17:18 couchdb.stderr
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 9.7K Sep  8 17:18 couchdb.stdout
>>
>> I don't have an exceptional setup, all opscode cookbooks + 15 of my
>> own, one of them contains a 35Mo file (yes I know, not ideal, I chose
>> the easy way). Still far from 90Go.
>>
>> Any clue?
>>
>> --Gilles
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