[shelve] What are the limitations? Entering too many data crashes it on my machine!

[Thomas Weholt]

Agree. My problems has always narrowed down to an error reported from bsdb.
It may be inaccurate , to say the least, to blame it on the shelve-module.

I'll try to force use of gdbm instead in my project and see what happens.

Best regards,
Thomas Weholt


"Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
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> I use "shelve" in an irc bot.  There are well over 100k keys (possibly
> more like 1Mkeys) in the shelf, which is 1.7G large on disk.  At peak
> usage, the bot probably makes up to 100 inserts or 400 queries per minute,
> and has been running nearly continuously (with restarts) for over a year.
> No problems (with the exception of running out of diskspace).  However,
> I'm using (according to file(1)) "GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little
> endian".  Oh, and the Python version is almost certainly 1.5.2.
>
> shelve itself is very unlikely to be where the problem lies.  The
> individual database library or Python database module may be, however.
>
> Jeff
>