[elephant-devel] Berkeley DB error: Cannot allocate memory.

Leslie P. Polzer sky at viridian-project.de
Mon Sep 22 08:43:21 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:25:10PM -0700, Red Daly wrote:
>
> Why does the memory allocation failure sour the whole database instead of
> aborting a single transaction?  I think that elephant should try to
> encapsulate this failure, recovering the database or whatever is necessary
> to make the store usable for the next transaction.

I'm willing to look into this, but can you give me a hint (or better yet
full code) on how to reproduce this?

That'd save some work for me.

Until then, can't you divide the txn into smaller pieces?

  Leslie



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