ripe.db.in.cl.* get large ....

In message <"xlink100.x.822:23.08.95.06.16.08"@xlink.net>, Arnold Nipper writes
:
> > 
> > This is almost certain to be due to the version of *DBM that you have
> > linked in with perl.  Try linking perl with the BSD DB library, using
> > the NDBM emulation.
> > 
> 
> I've run the same on a DPX20 which gives
> 
> dbm store returned -1, errno 27, key "3267231744/16" at /home2/xladm/lib/cldb
> .pl line 134, <db> line 383372.
> dbm store returned -1, errno 27, key "3267231744/16" at /home2/xladm/lib/cldb
> .pl line 134, <db> line 383372.
> 
> 1.
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 xladm    system   7133440 Sep 23 04:36 ripe.db.in
> -rw-r--r--   1 xladm    system     90112 Sep 23 07:26 ripe.db.in.cl.dir
> -rw-r--r--   1 xladm    system   724260864 Sep 23 07:26 ripe.db.in.cl.pag

Berkeley DB doesn't create .pag and .dir files, but rather a .db file.
Since RIPE convention is to use .db, naming gets confusing.

-rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff  20506746 Sep 24 23:43 ripe.db
-rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff  18292736 Sep 25 19:33 ripe.db.db
-rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff   4280320 Sep 25 19:33 ripe.db.cl.db

The ripe.db.db and ripe.db.cl.db is the classfull and classless index.
A total of 22 MB rather than the 700 MB you have.  Remeber that the
index files are just supposed to have key/offset pairs and should be
smaller than the data itself as long as the storage method is not
grossly inefficient.  The old DBM *is* grossly inefficient and NDBM is
not much better.  I suggest you try relinking perl with BSD DB.

This has nothing to do with which perl you are using.  I'm also using
perl 4.036 (4.0 pathlevel 36).

I'm not sure what your error is coming from.  We couldn't get any of
this to run right on AIX, so if you are using AIX, that may be part of
your problem.  :-(

Curtis