Paul,
Are you running on 4 different machines each with 8GB?
Each ndbd will allocate 3GB+ memory, so total of 4x3GB+ = 12GB+
T
Paul Gardner wrote:
>Hi again
>
>This one is freaking me out.
>
>My storage nodes have 8GB of RAM each (4 of).
>
>In config.ini:
>
>[NDBD DEFAULT]
>NoOfReplicas: 4
>DataMemory: 2048M
>IndexMemory: 1024M
>
>When starting ndbd, I get:
>
>Type of error: error
>Message: Memory allocation failure
>Fault ID: 2327
>Problem data: DBTUP could not allocate memory for Page
>Object of reference: Requested: 32768x65536 = 2147483648 bytes
>ProgramName: NDB Kernel
>ProcessID: 5007
>TraceFile: /usr/local/mysql/data/ndb_3_trace.log.8
>***EOM***
>
>Plenty of RAM available:
>
>[root@cl-mn-1 data]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 8258764 392100 7866664 0 93660 106052
>-/+ buffers/cache: 192388 8066376
>Swap: 2040244 0 2040244
>
>A bit of code to use malloc() to allocate 2GB of RAM succeeds:
>
>#cat testmem.c
>#include <stdlib.h>
>main(int argc, char** argv) {
> size_t n=atoll(argv[1]);
> if (malloc(n)) printf("%lld allocated\n",(long long)n);
> else perror("");
>}
>#gcc testmem.c
>#./a.out 2147483648
>2147483648 allocated
>
>I'm running the mysql-max-4.1.5-gamma binary distribution.
>
>Is this a bug or am I doing something idiotic?
>
>Please help - very nearly there!
>
>One other question - will Mysql support the cluster through a support
>contract (which I'm about to buy anyway) or will they insist on
>waiting for it to be declared production ready?
>
>Thanks
>Paul
>
>
>
