EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc #6001

issue kaotisk-hund opened this issue on April 10, 2015

kaotisk-hund commented at 8:17 PM on April 10, 2015: none

The following occurred today on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit, bitcoind v0.10

EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc
std::bad_alloc
bitcoin in ProcessMessages()

bitcoind: main.cpp:1647: bool ConnectBlock(const CBlock&, CValidationState&, CBlockIndex*, CCoinsViewCache&, bool): Assertion `hashPrevBlock == view.GetBestBlock()' failed. Aborted (core dumped)
sipa commented at 10:11 PM on April 10, 2015: member

bad_alloc almost certainly means you ran out of memory.
luke-jr commented at 10:14 PM on April 10, 2015: member
Just address space*, actually. Try:
```
sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1
```
(this is temporary and will be lost at reboot)

If you don't have enough memory, it won't help much though.

* Technically, 64-bit should never run out of address space, but Linux is artificially limiting it.
kaotisk-hund commented at 10:44 PM on April 10, 2015: none

Thank you very much both :)
kaotisk-hund closed this on Apr 10, 2015
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