[chef] Re: couchdb leaving deleted file descriptor turds?

[Chris < >]

I suffer this issue as well, I've just resigned myself to bouncing couchdb 
nightly via cron. 

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On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:52 PM, 

 
 wrote:

> 
> hi. i'm running couchdb 1.0.1, chef-server 0.10.8-1 on ubuntu 11.04.
> upon seeing my file system get a bit full, i sniffed around lsof, and
> see a bunch of couchdb open file descriptors in a deleted state. to
> bring my file system usage down, i bounce couchdb.
> 
> is this known? a bug? a misconfig on my part?
> 
> 
> 
 :~#
>  df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/xvda1            9.9G  7.5G  1.9G  81% /
> 
> 
 :~#
>  lsof | grep deleted
> couchdb   11249    couchdb    2u      CHR             136,11       0t0      
>    14 /dev/pts/11 (deleted)
> couchdb   11256    couchdb   11u      CHR             136,11       0t0      
>    14 /dev/pts/11 (deleted)
> beam.smp  11257    couchdb   13u      REG              202,1  43831394     
> 288649 /var/lib/couchdb/1.0.1/.delete/6465595cac049ad9c04da01e14fa8d52
> deleted)
> beam.smp  11257    couchdb   14u      REG              202,1  47362146     
> 289828 /var/lib/couchdb/1.0.1/.delete/9df04fbb0baf4c1d49c6dcdd4e8039c1
> deleted)
> beam.smp  11257    couchdb   16u      REG              202,1  44003426     
> 289857 /var/lib/couchdb/1.0.1/.delete/510caf00ad6ee38e06f7d58eb609d8e7
> deleted)
> beam.smp  11257    couchdb   17u      REG              202,1  48873570     
> 289830 /var/lib/couchdb/1.0.1/.delete/3fc13e1b05fb2e30a630582fc7266f7f
> deleted)
> [snip many]
> 
> 
> after restarting couchdb (and chef-server), lsof is clean and got disk
> space back
> 
> 
 :~#
>  df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/xvda1            9.9G  2.7G  6.7G  29% /
> 
> 
> thanks!
> kallen
>