I was able to resolve the issue by setting the stack size using the JVM
argument -Xss rather than ulimit or setrlimit, since we are calling fast
bit through JNA/JNI.

On 9/5/13 5:56 PM, "Enns, Steven" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On the topic of increasing the stack size, it's curious that we are able
>to recurse on the same parse tree without stack overflow in java...
>
>On 9/5/13 5:51 PM, "Enns, Steven" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Thanks John and Dominique!
>>
>>Unfortunately our column has a keyword index, so we are unable to use
>>"in"
>>queries.  We will try to balance our parentheses.
>>
>>Have either of you had success increasing the stack size? I tried using
>>ulimit and setrlimit, but neither seemed to work.
>>
>>John - Have you considered changing the methods that operate on the parse
>>tree to be iterative rather than recursive?  I started looking at
>>ibis::qExpr::simplify and I noticed two challenges:
>>
>>1. ibis::qExpr::simplify requires post-order traversal, which is somewhat
>>unnatural to implement iteratively
>>2. There are possibly many other methods which would need to be modified
>>
>>
>>On 9/5/13 5:17 PM, "K. John Wu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, Dominique and Steve,
>>>
>>>If your long list of ORs are most related to a single column (or a
>>>small number of columns), then it is possible to convert them into an
>>>expression of the form
>>>
>>>column_name IN (list_of_strings_or_numbers )
>>>
>>>The list in the parentheses has to be either a list of numbers of a
>>>list of strings (a mixture will be treated as a list of strings).
>>>
>>>Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>PS: more information about expressions of a where clause is available at
>>>
>>>http://lbl.gov/~kwu/fastbit/doc/html/classibis_1_1whereClause.html
>>>
>>>
>>>On 9/5/13 3:39 PM, Prunier, Dominique wrote:
>>>> Steve,
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> We faced the same issue and we worked around that by carefully
>>>> balancing the big OR with parenthesis so that you don¹t go deeper that
>>>> log2(OR count).
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps !
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> *From:*[email protected]
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Enns,
>>>>Steven
>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 05, 2013 6:16 PM
>>>> *To:* FastBit Users
>>>> *Subject:* [FastBit-users] stack overflow on large queries
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Hi John,
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> I am running a query of 2140 OR clauses and observing segmentation
>>>> fault in ibis::qExpr::simplify(ibis::qExpr*&) at recursive depth of
>>>> 1087.  Could you help us debug this?
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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