Re: bdb_locker_id: err Cannot allocate memory(12)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with an OpenLDAP server version 2.3.30. It is configured
> with many databases (more than 100), and when I try a search I get this
> error message:
> bdb_locker_id: err Cannot allocate memory(12)
>
> I tried to play with different parameters of DB_CONFIG (locks, cache_size,
> etc.) and slapd.conf (threads in particular) but without any result.
>
> Looking at the code I found that the function ldap_pvt_thread_pool_setkey
> (where it seems the error is from) doesn't allocate memory, but uses a
> fixed size table ctx of length MAXKEYS.
> Do you think I need to increase the MAXKEYS value, or that the problem is
> from somewhere else?

Seems like increasing MAXKEYS will make a difference here. However, that 
pool_setkey/getkey code uses a simple linear search to deal with keys. It 
won't perform very well with huge numbers of them.

> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Raphaël Ouazana.


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