Berkeley DB Family

Hi,

I am fairly new to BerkeleyDB. So, maybe my question is silly.

I have set up a multiprocess system using the BerkeleyDB Perl module. Normally a few hundred processes are involved. The system uses transactions. I have configured 5000 lockers via DB_CONFIG:

set_lk_max_locks 5000
set_lk_max_lockers 5000
set_lk_max_objects 5000

Nevertheless I just got:

"Lock table is out of available locker entries"

After that I noticed that some processes had segfaulted. But the segfault has occurred outside any transaction or any other BerkeleyDB operation.

Can it be that a segfaulting process eats up a lock table entry?

Or do I have to raise the figures? Is there a method to estimate how many lock table entries are needed?

Thanks,
Torsten