CouchDB data folder is getting bigger and bigger

[larryaubstore]

Hi, I just noticed that CouchDB data folder is getting big very quickly. I use this docker image: https://github.com/klaemo/docker-couchdb (Tag 2.0.0)

The fix I found for the moment is to call manually 'http:https://couchdbserver/{dbname}/_view_cleanup' on each database.

Before cleanup, the database took 5GB and after cleanup the database take 86M.

It there a way to configure automatically the 'clean_up' task ?

[janl]

See http:https://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/maintenance/compaction.html for details

[larryaubstore]

Thank you for the quick response. Do you have an example somewhere ?

I added this config in local.ini but it does not seem to work:

_default = [{db_fragmentation, "70%"}, {view_fragmentation, "60%"}, {from, "07:00"}, {to, "11:00"}]

Do I have to specify the databases somewhere ?

[larryaubstore]

The automatic compaction does not seem to work. I tried with 5%, it is never triggered:

_default = [{db_fragmentation, "5%"}, {view_fragmentation, "5%"}, {from, "07:00"}, {to, "11:00"}]

There is an other thing that it is not clear to me. Does '_clean_up' operation included in compaction ?