# RE: Re: couchdb crashes while/after couch db compact

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-couchdb-crashes-while-after-couch-db-compact/2466>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [February 17, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-couchdb-crashes-while-after-couch-db-compact/2466 "2012-02-17T18:37:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Van\_Fossan\_Randy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8797f3/32.png) [@Van\_Fossan\_Randy](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Van_Fossan_Randy)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-couchdb-crashes-while-after-couch-db-compact/2466/1 "2012-02-17T18:37:47Z")

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AJ,

Can you point me to the information you read about Chef not working on CouchDB 1.1.1? Since I am going to have to install it from source, can anyone tell me which version I should be using? The Opscode Wiki, installing Chef Server states -\> CouchDB (0.9.1-0.10+) [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server)

Thanks  
Randy

-----Original Message-----  
From: AJ Christensen [[mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz](mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz)]  
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:28 PM  
To: [bdha@mirrorshades.net](mailto:bdha@mirrorshades.net)  
Cc: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: RE: couchdb crashes while/after couch db compact

Last I had read, Chef Server didn't work with CouchDB 1.1.1

This may or may not have been an independent user report, take it with a spoon of sauce.

--AJ

On 14 February 2012 08:12, Bryan Horstmann-Allen [bdha@mirrorshades.net](mailto:bdha@mirrorshades.net) wrote:

> +---------------------------------------------------------------------  
> +---------  
> | On 2012-02-13 13:35:24, Van Fossan,Randy wrote:  
> |  
> | Has Anyone used couchdb 1.1.1 with chef-server 10.8? The version I  
> | am currently running is 0.11.2 (from rbel repos). Is it a straight  
> | upgrade to 1.1.1 at the database level?
> 
> I've tried to get on 1.1.1 a few times on Linux and SmartOS. I keep  
> hitting a "stack quota exhausted" error, regardless of how large I  
> make the stack size passed to couchjs (-S argument, see the CouchDB  
> perf page). Happens on both platforms.
> 
> I have no idea if it's directly related to Chef's views... I don't use  
> CouchDB for anything else.
> 
> ## Cheers.
> 
> bdha  
> cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Christensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/aj_christensen/32/525_2.png) [@AJ\_Christensen](https://discourse.chef.io/u/AJ_Christensen)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-couchdb-crashes-while-after-couch-db-compact/2466/2 "2012-02-17T19:15:05Z")

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It was a conversation on IRC, some poor dude battling CouchDB 1.1.1 for hours.

--AJ

On 18 February 2012 07:37, Van Fossan,Randy [vanfossr@oclc.org](mailto:vanfossr@oclc.org) wrote:

> AJ,
> 
> Can you point me to the information you read about Chef not working on CouchDB 1.1.1? Since I am going to have to install it from source, can anyone tell me which version I should be using? The Opscode Wiki, installing Chef Server states -\> CouchDB (0.9.1-0.10+) [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server)
> 
> Thanks  
> Randy
> 
> -----Original Message-----  
> From: AJ Christensen [[mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz](mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz)]  
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:28 PM  
> To: [bdha@mirrorshades.net](mailto:bdha@mirrorshades.net)  
> Cc: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> Subject: [chef] Re: Re: RE: couchdb crashes while/after couch db compact
> 
> Last I had read, Chef Server didn't work with CouchDB 1.1.1
> 
> This may or may not have been an independent user report, take it with a spoon of sauce.
> 
> --AJ
> 
> On 14 February 2012 08:12, Bryan Horstmann-Allen [bdha@mirrorshades.net](mailto:bdha@mirrorshades.net) wrote:
> 
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------  
> > +---------  
> > | On 2012-02-13 13:35:24, Van Fossan,Randy wrote:  
> > |  
> > | Has Anyone used couchdb 1.1.1 with chef-server 10.8? The version I  
> > | am currently running is 0.11.2 (from rbel repos). Is it a straight  
> > | upgrade to 1.1.1 at the database level?
> > 
> > I've tried to get on 1.1.1 a few times on Linux and SmartOS. I keep  
> > hitting a "stack quota exhausted" error, regardless of how large I  
> > make the stack size passed to couchjs (-S argument, see the CouchDB  
> > perf page). Happens on both platforms.
> > 
> > I have no idea if it's directly related to Chef's views... I don't use  
> > CouchDB for anything else.
> > 
> > ## Cheers.
> > 
> > bdha  
> > cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.