EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc std::bad_alloc bitcoin in ProcessMessages() #7361

issue btcid opened this issue on January 17, 2016

btcid commented at 2:17 AM on January 17, 2016: none
my wallet blockchain was crashed and I unable to start it back with -reindex

it already synced to block num 340870, and it will be crashed every 5-10 blocks:
```
EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc       
std::bad_alloc       
bitcoin in ProcessMessages()       

2016-01-17 02:12:03 ProcessMessages(block, 749055 bytes) FAILED peer=6
```
config:
```
daemon=1
rpcport=12345
rpcuser=xxx
rpcpassword=xxxx

maxconnections=8
paytxfee=0.0001

minrelaytxfee=0.0001
limitfreerelay=5
```
the server has 16gb of RAM and 10gb of swap.

the wallet has 100k of addresses

any help would be very appreciated.

thanks
btcid commented at 2:25 AM on January 17, 2016: none

i tried

export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1

still crashing 1-2 minutes after bitcoind up

"version" : 110200, "protocolversion" : 70002, "walletversion" : 60000,
pstratem commented at 6:29 AM on January 17, 2016: contributor

sounds like you're running out of memory
btcid commented at 6:36 AM on January 17, 2016: none

memory is 16gb and 10gb of swap. i monitor when the crash happened, only 7gb of memory being used.

btcid commented at 6:46 AM on January 17, 2016: none

debug.log

2016-01-17 06:44:39 

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

memory stats:

time       total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
2016-01-17 06:44:39          16174       7017       9157          0         33       3993

laanwj added the label P2P on Jan 18, 2016
laanwj commented at 12:57 PM on February 9, 2016: member

std::bad_alloc is raised only for one reason: out of memory. Are you perhaps running a 32-bit version of bitcoind? Lots of GB of memory won't help if the application cannot address it.
btcid commented at 4:09 PM on February 9, 2016: none

sorry for not updating. yes it turned out it was a 32 bit box. no wonder it kept running out of memory.
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