Hi, Petr,

When fileManager fails to allocate memory, the operations depending
the memory would fail.  There isn't a systematic recovery mechanism in
place to deal with this in FastBit.  You might consider the following
options:

- increase the memory allowed by FastBit by setting a high cache limit
on fileManager.  You can do this by creating a configuration file to
be read by FastBit.  The parameter fileManager.maxBytes is used to
specify the memory cache size.  Alternatively you can call
ibis::fileManager::adjustCacheSize.

- breaking you data into smaller partitions.  This has the potential
of complicating your data processing, but will reduce the memory
requirement in most cases.

John


On 7/27/14 11:56 PM, Petr Velan wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I managed to get recent enough compiler to build latest SVN revision. I
> rebased my changes on that and tried a query on a quite large data sample.
> I did not notice any problems apart from following warning:
> 
> Warning -- fileManager::storage::ctor unable to find 58,720,256 bytes
> of space in memory
> 
> What does happen when this warning is encountered? Is the query not
> completed and I§m given only partial answer, or does it find another way to
> finish the query?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Petr
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:16 PM, K. John Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Petr,
>>
>> Not sure if you are still interested in this, but here is what I have
>> been puzzling over.
>>
>> There are many cases where an array_t<unsigned> is deleted first, but
>> then copied into another array_t<unsigned>.  One possible scenario for
>> this is that a pointer to a bitvector is returned from a function that
>> generated the bitvector as a local object.  From the log file, I am
>> not able to tell if this true or not.
>>
>> I have tried to run valgrind a few times, but not able to spot this
>> problem so far.  If you have a small test case for me, I am willing to
>> look into it a little further.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/14, 11:28 PM, Petr Velan wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> did you by any chance have a bit of time to look into this matter?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Petr
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Petr Velan <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi John,
>>>
>>>     I did the testing only with disabled mmap, no other modifications.
>>>     I'm now sending you an email with link to download the complete
>>>     log. I'm trying it on an older version from SVN revision 657.
>>>     Sadly, the newest is not compatible with the tested system.
>>>
>>>     The log file is quite big 19GB, I compressed it to 2.5GB and the
>>>     link should be in another email shortly. I'm using
>>>     https://filesender.cesnet.cz/ service for the transfer.
>>>
>>>     Let me know if there is anything more that I can do.
>>>
>>>     Best,
>>>     Petr
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, K. John Wu <[email protected]
>>>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi, Petr,
>>>
>>>         FastBit is only tracking the memory usage of a few object
>>>         types such
>>>         as ibis::array_t and ibis::buffer.  Since you are using a
>>>         compression
>>>         layer, I presume that you are also allocating considerable
>>>         amounts of
>>>         memory using malloc or new directly.  This would mean FastBit
>>>         is only
>>>         tracking a part of the memory uses.  If you turn up the
>>>         verboseness of
>>>         the FastBit code, say, ibis::util::setVerboseLevel(10), and
>>>         ship me
>>>         the log messages, I can take a look and see if I can spot
>> anything
>>>         more useful to suggest.
>>>
>>>         John
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 3/20/14, 6:35 AM, Petr Velan wrote:
>>>         > Hi John,
>>>         >
>>>         > I'm currently working on FastBit support for compressed
>>>         files. To
>>>         > simplify things a bit for a start, I have disabled the MMAP
>>>         support
>>>         > and forced FastBit to use open, read, write and seek
>>>         functions. Then I
>>>         > hooked into these functions and provided a compression
>>>         layer. The
>>>         > problem is that just disabling the MMAP causes FastBit to
>>>         use so much
>>>         > memory that OOM killer terminates the process for some
>>>         aggregation
>>>         > queries.
>>>         >
>>>         > Is there anything I can do to tell FastBit to limit the
>>>         amount of
>>>         > memory it can use? I thought that only half of the available
>>>         memory
>>>         > will be used by default. I've tested this issue on latest
>>>         SVN revision.
>>>         >
>>>         > Thank you in advance for any help,
>>>         > Petr Velan
>>>         >
>>>         >
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