Re: [Sks-devel] Segfault in v1.0.4

[Yaron M. Minsky]

Hmm.  This is quite strange.  The sks_db and sks_recon processes do NOT
need huge amounts of memory --- on the order of 10-30 each.  Right now
they're together taking 25 megs on my machine.

Are you talking about sks_db and sks_recon or build/fastbuild/pbuild? 
If so, exactly which one fails, and why?  keyserver.bu.edu is a 128 meg
machine, and SKS works just dandy on it.

So, I guess the next step is to provide some more detailed info about
exactly which executable fails and where.  By the way, the way to get
more debugging info is not to set the debug flag (which is set by
default anyway) but to set the debuglevel to something high.  The
default is 3, 5-6 is pretty verbose, and 10 will give you a printout of
every message passed through the system.

y

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:27, Daniel Johnson wrote:
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> I'm having intermittent trouble on a system with little
> available physical RAM.  Thinking the problem was due to the
> lack of memory, I've put these lines in my sksconf file:
>   cache: 1
>   ptree_cache: 1
>   diskptree: 
> 
> On another system (save versions, same setup) those options cut
> memory usage and the processes still seem to run OK.  On this
> one it still won't always work.  In fact, it rarely works. 
> These crashes (earlier) seemed to corrupt the database and
> aggravate the problem.  Perhaps I'll start over later tonight.
> 
> The output of "free -m" shows 313mb total and ~32 free and 125mb
> swap with 105 free.
> 
> The database should only have one key in it (mine).  This same
> setup works perfectly on my other system, with less total RAM
> (and almost none free).  Am I missing something obvious here?
> 
> The debug option has not provided any extra log or console
> output.  Is there another command/option I can use that might
> help here?
> 
> "Thor" (problem system)
> Slackware Linux v8.0
> AMD K6-300
> 320mb RAM, 128mb swap
> ~780mb free on partition (yes, I know...)
> 
> "Discovery" (works great)
> Slackware Linux v9.0
> AMD K7 1.2Ghz
> 128mb RAM, 256mb swap
> 17gb free on partition
> 
> 
> BTW, what kind of disk space would I need for a full keyring? 
> 3gb?  
> 
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