Hi,

We have a MonetDB instance which was working without problems and suddenly stopped working. The following error shows up in "merovingian.log" when the client(mclient) tries to connect to the database:

2013-10-07 10:35:27 ERR testbd[12111]: !FATAL: BBPextend: trying to extend BAT pool beyond the limit (16384000)
2013-10-07 10:35:27 ERR testbd[12111]:
2013-10-07 10:35:27 MSG merovingian[12015]: database 'testbd' (12111) has exited with exit status 1
2013-10-07 10:35:27 ERR merovingian[12015]: client error: database 'testbd' has crashed after starting, manual intervention needed, check monetdbd's logfile for details
2013-10-07 10:35:27 MSG merovingian[12015]: database 'testbd' has crashed after start on 2013-10-02 16:36:06, attempting restart, up min/avg/max: 0s/0s/0s, crash average: 1.00 1.00 0.83 (25-0=25)

The DB size is about 1.1 GB. I really don't know how many tables, columns or records this specific database has, as it was being used for a while and the data is created/uploaded daily by its users.

I tried with Feb2013-SP2, Feb2013-SP3 and Feb2013-SP4

I have a few question about this issue:

1 - Is there any way to see a more detailed log about the error?

2 - Is it possible to recover the DB from this error? I saw somewhere in the mailing list that removing the sql_logs could help starting the DB, at the cost of loosing some data. Already tried that with no success.

3 - What is this "BAT pool limit" thing? Is this related in some way with the number of tables, number of columns per table, or total amount of columns that a DB can have?

Thank you,

Pedro Salgueiro