bsddb3 thread problem

[anuraguniyal at yahoo.com]

In my application I am trying to access(read) a DB thru a thread while
my main thread is adding data to it and it gives following error(s)

bsddb._db.DBRunRecoveryError: (-30974, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery -- PANIC: Permission denied')

and sometimes
bsddb._db.DBRunRecoveryError: (-30974, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery -- PANIC: fatal region error detected; run
recovery')

sometimes
bsddb._db.DBInvalidArgError: (22, 'Invalid argument -- DB_LOCK-
>lock_put: Lock is no longer valid')

sometimes pure seg fault.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7c1b845 in __bam_adjust () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so

and some time memory usage keeps on increasing and cpu is 100%
it crashes with memory error.

This doesn't happen always, almost 1 in 10 cases.
If i use simple python threaded function instead of threading class,
it works.

I have attached a simple script which tries to replicate the scenario.

Do anybody has a clue what I am doing wrong here?
I suppose bsddb3 DB can be accessed from mutiple threads?
or do I need to specifically set DB_THREAD flag? though with
db.DB_THREAD it hangs on some mutex?

Thanks a lot
Anurag


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import time
import os
import threading
import thread
import shutil
from bsddb3 import db

class DocQueueConsumer(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, queueDB):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.queueDB = queueDB
        self.setDaemon(True)

    def run(self):
        while True: self.queueDB.cursor()

def crash():
    path = "/tmp/test_crash"
    if os.path.exists(path):
        shutil.rmtree(path)
    os.mkdir(path)

    aBigEnv = db.DBEnv()
    aBigEnv.set_cachesize(0, 512*1024*1024)
    aBigEnv.open(path, db.DB_INIT_CDB|db.DB_INIT_MPOOL|db.DB_CREATE)

    queueDB = db.DB(aBigEnv)
    queueDB.open('mydb', dbtype=db.DB_RECNO, flags=db.DB_CREATE)

    DocQueueConsumer(queueDB).start()
    for i in xrange(10**5):
        if i%1000==0: print i/1000
        queueDB.append("something")

crash()
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