[rrd-users] rrdtool create bus error. 2GB limit or other?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:46:06PM +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 00:07:56 -0700
> Marc MERLIN <marc_rrd at merlins.org> wrote:
> 
> > My old file was 1.2GB, I expect this one to be right around the 2GB
> > limit if it is a limit on 32bit systems.
> > Is it a limit?
> 
> What filesystem is your file on?

Good question: linux, ext3, I have plenty of files bigger than 2GB there.

It looks like some kind fo pointer error in rrdtool.
Either way, it clearly looks like rrdtool is actually allocating the entire
amount of RAM used by the RRD file at creation time at least, and that it
just fails to allocate more than 2GB on a 32bit CPU, which wouldn't be
unheard of.

For now, I've just trimmed my file to be just below 2GB.

Marc
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