Bigcouch restarts on PUTs to update handler with bodies larger than a determined size.
On a test machine, I create a file at @/tmp/body.json@ containing a 23 Mb body, and then do:
#!/bin/sh HOST=127.0.0.1 PORT=5984 DB=test-db DOC=_design/docs/_update/put/largedoc curl -X POST \ -d @/tmp/body.json \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ http://@${HOST}:${PORT}/${DB}/${DOC}
This causes the server to restart:
[Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:11:10 GMT] [debug] [<0.123.0>] [--------] Include Doc: <<"_design/_replicator">> {1, <<91,250, 44,153, 238,254, 43,46, 180,150, 45,181, 10,163, 207,212>>} [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:11:10 GMT] [info] [<0.94.0>] [--------] Apache CouchDB has started on http://127.0.0.1:5986/ [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:11:10 GMT] [debug] [<0.161.0>] [--------] Include Doc: <<"test-db">> {1, <<90,26,223,65,177, 206,177,151,166, 69,36,46,166,15, 225,205>>}
Note: bodies smaller than 23 Mb do not cause the server to restart.
The bigcouch lead developer has commented on this problem:
16:05 the only other thing would be couchjs's stack size, which is not configurable in bigcouch afaik (though it is in recent couchdb's), but it wouldn't crash beam.
(from redmine: created on 2014-01-20, closed on 2014-03-11)