[chef] Re: Re: disk running out of space

[Brian Hatfield < >]

Hi there,

Cleaning up CouchDB actually requires 3 different compaction commands, but some of the responses in this thread don't mention all 3:

View Compaction, View Cleanup, and overall Compaction. Without running all 3, not much space will be cleared.

I've written a small python command line tool that aides me in running these commands by automatically seeking all the views and running the compaction commands against them. Additionally, you can dump a GZ backup of your database as well.

I hope this helps: https://github.com/bmhatfield/couch-compaction

Brian

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Spike Grobstein < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Daniel,

I don't have much experience with couchdb. What's the best way to do this?

I'd do it through the couchdb admin interface, but it's like 10,000 documents.

...spike

On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Spike Grobstein wrote:

Hi Ketan,

Yeah, I've got something similar set up:

https://gist.github.com/4091940

I  have that running once a day, but it's not affecting our free space and at the rate it's going, I'll be out of space in about a month. The couchdb size has already passed 40GB.

I really want to be able to just delete old data. I've got tons of Sandbox data going back as far as march.

...spike

Sandboxes should be safe to delete, but I'm not sure it will fix your issue. Would be interested to hear your results.

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Daniel DeLeo