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List:       monetdb-users
Subject:    Re: [MonetDB-users] server crash/sql prompt
From:       dariuszs <dariuszs () svnp ! com>
Date:       2009-01-28 16:26:41
Message-ID: 49808741.3020101 () svnp ! com
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Hi,
Yes I will try to reproduce the error, my question is what do I need to 
set in order to capture that problem? Right now I don't see any logs or 
activity anywhere. Thanks. Dariusz.


Stefan Manegold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the most interesting question for us for now is what is your machine and/or
> mserver5 doing after the restart while the client cannot connect? Is
> mserver5 / the machine idle (no CPU load no I/O) or is there any
> (significant) activity (CPU load, I/O)?
>
> ... repeating the process on a virgin machine to see whether it is a
> reproducible problem would also provide us with valuable input ...
>
> Stefan
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:44:52AM -0500, dariuszs wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Thank you for fast response.
>> Here is what happed:
>> I started the server, then he client, then created  3 tables with 300 
>> fields all variable character with the record lenght 700 bytes - and 
>> that was done sequentially. Ran couple of queries, everything worked 
>> fine. Started creating another table with data from csv file. Started 
>> another client at the same time and submitted a query. The query was 
>> taking lots of time, so I've termianted the job.Started another client 
>> and all I saw was the blinking prompt. Terminated all the clients. 
>> Restarted the server - no problem. Restarted the client - blinking 
>> prompt, waited 6 hours to get the sql prompt with no luck.
>> What I've noticed is that during the creation of the first table from 
>> csv file memory usage went up to 46GB, after It was complete the server 
>> did not release the memory.
>> Is there any way to track what happened? How do I read the log files? I 
>> mean I can repeat the process. Thanks so much for the help. Dariusz.
>>
>>
>> Stefan Manegold wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 64-bit Windows (and a 64-bit MonetDB, I assume?) with 48 GB of memory does
>>> not sound too bad --- well, it depends on how large your tables are --- 100
>>> millions rows long ans 300 fields wide, but how wide are the fields, i.e.,
>>> what type are they?
>>>
>>> I you successfully manages to load all the data, I see no obvious reasons
>>> why simple `select count(*) from table;` queries should not work as well ...
>>>
>>> Could please be a bit more elaborate with discribing your problem?
>>>
>>> Could you please recap in detail all the steps since installing MonetDB that
>>> eventually led to the current problems?
>>>
>>> In particular, we'd need to know of any errors or other message that the
>>> server and/or client showed and of any cases where you killed either server
>>> or client in any way.
>>>
>>> Do I understand you correctly, that you now manage to start the MonetDB/SQL
>>> server without problems getting a server console, and that then starting the
>>> MonetDB/SQL client (both started the default way, i.e., via the respective
>>> entries in the start menu?) yields no a window with a blinking prompt?
>>> Can you type on that prompt? If so, can you run a trivial query such as
>>> `select 1;`? Do you get an answer for that?
>>>
>>> We'd at least need to know all this to get a vague idea what might be wrong
>>> --- better still, it would be great if you could give as a clear recipe how
>>> we could try to reproduce your problem ...
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:25:30PM -0500, dariuszs wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Maybe I need a bigger box for what I'm doing. Right now it's 64 bit 
>>>> windows machine with lots of SAS storage and 48GB of memory. I've setup 
>>>> few tables with over 100 million records and about 300 fields in each 
>>>> table, and I'm running counts on those tables at the same time. Could 
>>>> you advise. Thanks. Dariusz.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stefan Manegold wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:50:02PM -0500, dariuszs wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Can somebody help me with this one. I was running a very long query, 
>>>>>> decided to terminate that job. Now when I try to get the client all I 
>>>>>> see is blinking prompt. How do I get back the sql prompt? Thanks. Dariusz.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> - did you terminate only the client or also the server?
>>>>> - is your server still running?
>>>>>   if not, you need to restart it.
>>>>>   if it is, is it idle or busy?
>>>>>   in any case quitting the server and restarting it might be a good idea.
>>>>>   note though, that starting the server might take some time, in case it
>>>>>   need to reply the write-ahead logs.
>>>>>
>>>>> (do I recall correctly, that you are using the Nov2008 version of MonetDB
>>>>> (or Nov2008-SP1 or Nov2008-SP2?) on Win32?
>>>>>
>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
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