CouchDB .view file growing out of control?

Question

I recently encountered a situation where my CouchDB instance used all available disk space on a 20GB VM instance. Upon investigation I discovered that a directory in /usr/local/

Answer 1

I've had this problem too, trying out CouchDB for a browsed-based game.

We had about 100.000 unexpected visitors on the first day of a site launch, and within 2 days the CouchDB database was taking about 40GB in space. This made the server crash because the HD was completely full.

Compaction brought that back to about 50MB. I also set the _revs_limit (which defaults to 1000) to 10 since we didn't care about revision history, and it's running perfectly since. After almost 1M users, the database size is usually about 2-3GB. When i run compaction it's about 500MB.

Setting document revision limit to 10:
curl -X PUT -d "10" http://dbuser:dbpassword@127.0.0.1:5984/yourdb/_revs_limit

Or without user:password (not recommended):
curl -X PUT -d "10" http://127.0.0.1:5984/yourdb/_revs_limit