Tommy Chheng

If you come across an OS Process Timed out using a view in CouchDB, you can adjust the os_process_timeout setting in the couchdb futon utility.

[Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:57:45 GMT] [error] [<0.2804.0>] Uncaught error in HTTP request: {exit,
                                {{bad_return_value,
                                  {os_process_error,"OS process timed out."}},
                                 {gen_server,call,
                                  [<0.2808.0>,
                                   {prompt,
                                    [<<"reduce">>,
                                     [<<"function(keys, values, rereduce) {\n     return sum(values);\n   }">>],
                                     [[[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1],
                                      [[[<<"0832603">>,<<"and">>],
                                        <<"0832603">>],
                                       1]]]},
                                   infinity]}}}

Thanks to Dustin on the couchdb user mailing list for pointing this out.