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Re: Berkeley DB problem: "Could not allocate memory"

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-02-08 00:39:26 CET

Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> I'm having trouble with subversion. Some large commits fail with:
>
> [Mon Feb 07 19:00:06 2005] [error] [client 10.53.3.67] (20014)Error
> string not specified yet: Berkeley
> DB error while opening 'uuids' table for filesystem
> /var/lib/svn/pv/db:\nCannot allocate memory
> [Mon Feb 07 19:00:06 2005] [error] [client 10.53.3.67] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Mon Feb 07 19:00:06 2005] [error] [client 10.53.3.67] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [50
> 0, #160029]
> [Mon Feb 07 19:00:06 2005] [error] [client 10.53.3.67] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [50
> 0, #160029]
>
> Is there anything I can do to help debug this problem. Should I rebuild
> subversion with --enable-maintainer-mode ? Is that option ok for a
> production server?
>
> I've tried increading the "cache", as was said in a previous thread in
> this mailing list, by adding "set_cachesize 0 8388608 1" to db/DB_CONFIG
> and running "svnadmin recover". According to the users the problem only
> got worse.
>
> This is fairly big repository:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 18M feb 7 19:19 representations
> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 27M feb 7 19:19 nodes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 30M feb 7 19:19 changes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 5.3G feb 7 19:19 strings
>
> I'm using versión 1.1.3 (r12730). The system is RedHat AS 3.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.

It's more likely running out of available locks (yes, horrible error msg).

Run "db_stat -c -h /path/to/repos/db" to check if there are far more current
locks than there ought to be (zero when the repos is quiescent), and
shutdown access and recover if so.

Max.

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