Bindwood

uses a HUGE amount of disk space (compared to the numer of bookmarks I have)

Bug #427622 reported by Guillermo Gonzalez
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bindwood
Won't Fix
Critical
MR_JOC

Bug Description

today I got an nice popup saying that the volume 'home' was running out of space...after looking to the "disk usage analyzer" I found that I have a 2.6GB file: ~/.local/share/desktop-couch/bookmarks.couch

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Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok) wrote :

Btwm I'm using bindwood-0.2~~rev9-0ubuntu1 with firefox 3.5

Changed in bindwood:
importance: Undecided → Critical
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Zachery Bir (urbanape) wrote :

I don't have any ready explanations for why this happened, only suppositions. However, the latest branches that have been submitted take great pains to avoid creating CouchDB revisions unless absolutely necessary.

I'll keep looking at this, and I'd like to see if it's possible to reproduce under the new code branches.

Changed in bindwood:
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Zachery Bir (urbanape)
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Zachery Bir (urbanape) wrote :

Guillermo, have you seen anything like this since compacting your CouchDB? I haven't seen this reported in the wild of late, and haven't seen this myself, having run FF with Bindwood consistently for quite a long while.

Joshua Hoover (joshuahoover)
tags: added: ubuntuone-karmic
Joshua Hoover (joshuahoover)
Changed in bindwood:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Zachery Bir (urbanape) wrote :

Closing until we hear anything more from ~verterok

Changed in bindwood:
status: In Progress → Invalid
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David Ayers (ayers) wrote :

I have a 3,8 GB file on a Lucid installation and a 1.4GB on a Maverick installation.

Comment #3 mentions Compaction. How would that be done?

Changed in bindwood:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Brian Dunnette (bdunnette) wrote :

Just had to deal with a 35+ GB file on my Lucid machine - compaction brought this down to under 1 GB (still pretty large, but more manageable...)

Wouldn't it be possible to alleviate the runaway growth of bookmarks.couch by automatically compacting it (weekly? monthly?)

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Hans Harhoff Andersen (hansharhoff) wrote :

I have 2.8 on 11.10 but my home dir has been copied from older installations. Is it safe to remove bookmarks.couch? What is it?

MR_JOC (joc-jpg)
Changed in bindwood:
assignee: Zachery Bir (urbanape) → MR_JOC (joc-jpg)
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Rick McBride (rmcbride) wrote :

bindwood is no longer supported.

Changed in bindwood:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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