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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Schwartz <mykes@sportsextra.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/3373: db bug?
Message-ID:  <199704221932.MAA25013@shell.sportsextra.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <199704221940.MAA12456@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         3373
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       .db with 600K records and 1.1GB size returns errno=27
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 22 12:40:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Schwartz
>Organization:
Internet Extra Corporation
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
P166, 128M RAM, 4G disk space.
The drive this .db file is on is 97% full with > 100MB free.

>Description:

When trying to add a new record, using perl dbm functions, perl dies
with an error message "Can't write to db reason errno=27."

The file has about 600K records in it and is 1.1G in size.
-rw-rw-r--  1 mykes  httpd  1125855232 Apr 22 12:29 files.db

>How-To-Repeat:

create a db file and start adding records to it until it fails?

>Fix:
	
I don't have a fix.  I had to kludge my software to use 2 .db files.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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