[elephant-devel] Cannot allocate memory

[Walter C. Pelissero]

Ben writes:
 > Have you tried using degree-2 cursors / transactions on your read?
 > sleepycat by default uses serializable cursors / transactions.  this
 > means that during the course of a read you're guaranteed that the
 > stuff you've seen won't change.  this, as you can imagine, requires a
 > lot of locks.  degree-2 relaxes that condition, you might consider it.

Not sure.  The function that scans the DB just happens to be called
from a transaction; it doesn't require a transaction itself.

I'll try to find out whether degree-2 cursors will do.

Thanks a lot.

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