Server does not start (out of memory)

Operations
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I added an index to existing Aerospike server and while indexing I saw that the server runs out of memory. I stopped the server with /etc/init.d/aerospike stop, then I increased the memory allocation to the index table from 40GB to 50GB and started the server.

Now, the server will not start and the log shoots continuously the following errors: Aug 01 2015 11:58:30 GMT: WARNING (sindex): (ai_btree.c::388) Allocation failure for anbtr Aug 01 2015 11:58:30 GMT: WARNING (sindex): (ai_btree.c::946) Insert into the btree failed

until eventually it dies.

Any idea?

Rafi

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Hi rafiton,

Seems like you are running out of memory on your machine.

Please go through our capacity planning sheet - http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/plan/capacity/

If you want to start the server without secondary index, you can manually delete/modify the sindex smd file before starting the server.

The default location of this file is - /opt/aerospike/smd/*

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Thanks. Not sure if it was indeed a memory issue but I restored the data.

Thanks Rafi

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