Reason for gdbm DB corruption

[Sriranjani Srinivasan]

Hi,

What are the possible reasons why gdbm database gets corrupted?
I have a 50MB gdbm database which hangs when I try to write data into it for 
certain specific keys alone.

Please through some light on this.

Regards,
Sriranjani S

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