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[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "Troubleshooting" by AdamKocoloski

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  == Misc Errors ==
+ CouchDB using a lot of memory (several hundred MB) on startup?  This one seems to especially affect Dreamhost installs.  It's really an issue with the Erlang VM pre-allocating data structures when ulimit is very large or unlimited.  A detailed dicussion can be found [[http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/4/46168|on the erlang-questions list]], but the short answer is that you should decrease ulimit -n or define ERL_MAX_PORTS to something reasonable like 1024.
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  Erlang backtraces are quite "hard" to read for non-Erlangers. The list here tries to give keywords to help you pinpointing your problem and suggests possible solutions
  
   system_limit, erlang, open_port:: Erlang has a default limit of 1024 ports, where each FD, tcp connection, and linked-in driver uses one port. You seem to have exceeded this. You can change it at runtime using the ERL_MAX_PORTS env variable.