[chef] Re: couchdb crashing issues

[Adam Jacob < >]

What version of erlang are you using, KC? 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-275

Is the relevant bug, and you should see this fixed by using Erlang R13B.

Similarly, you probably want to move to a more recent couchdb.

Adam

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On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, KC Braunschweig wrote:

> Hoping someone has had a similar experience. I've been having couchdb
> on my chef server crashing overnight. It seems like something around
> the time of log rotation seems to cause an erlang heartbeat timeout
> and couch doesn't always successfully respawn, even with
> COUCHDB_RESPAWN_TIMEOUT=5 set in sysconfig. When it fails, it usually
> looks like this in the stderr log:
> 
> heart_beat_kill_pid = 31808
> heart_beat_timeout = 11
> heart: Mon Aug 15 16:54:21 2011: Erlang has closed.
> /usr/bin/couchdb: line 277: echo: write error: Broken pipe
> heart: Mon Aug 15 16:54:22 2011: Executed "/usr/bin/couchdb -k". 
> Terminating.
> 
> When it succeeds in respawning, it seems to look like this:
> 
> heart: Tue Aug 16 04:18:25 2011: heart-beat time-out.
> heart: Tue Aug 16 04:18:26 2011: Executed "/usr/bin/couchdb -k". 
> Terminating.
> heart_beat_kill_pid = 4708
> heart_beat_timeout = 11
> 
> I'm not convinced logrotation has anything to do with it though
> because (1) I couldn't reproduce the failure by triggering a manual
> log rotation (2) couchdb logrotation does a copy/truncate so it
> shouldn't be apparent to the process at all.
> 
> I also saw some mention after a bit of googling that someone had a
> respawning problem hours after db compaction. I have been running
> compaction using chef-solo and the chef-server::default recipe from
> Opscode but don't have enough data yet to draw any correlation.
> 
> This is on RHEL 5.6 with couchdb-0.11.2-2.el5 from Fedora EPEL.
> 
> Anyone see anything like this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> KC Braunschweig