Re: [Sks-devel] Ptree corruption

[John Clizbe]

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Javier Henderson wrote:
> I run two keyservers, one has just two peers, the other has about a dozen.
> 
> The one with a dozen peers sees periodic corruption, necessitating a rebuild.
> From what I've seen after asking the great google mind, this seems to happen
> periodically, and there was even a posting this morning by someone dropping 
> out
> of the ring because of this problem.
> 
> Both of the keyservers I run are on 1.1.1, which I believe is latest and 
> greatest.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

Since rebuilding my server in June of last year, I've seen the PTree corrupted
error three times, each time preceded by large numbers of recovered hashes

2010-04-12 16:44:43 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted:
Bdb.DBError("unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region")

2010-04-22 10:23:32 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted:
Bdb.DBError("unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region")

2010-05-05 02:11:23 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted:
Bdb.DBError("unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region")

sks 1.1.1 with db-4.8 until 14-Apr-2010, db-5.0 currently on Slackware

I recover the same way each time, db_recover followed by db_checkpoint

I can forward the log files, or excerpts, if anyone thinks they have a fix.

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