Hi Tim,

I reproduced your problem and then managed to go through a procedure to increase the number of allowable open records.  The following is the procedure that I used 

1) Use odbedit to save current ODB

odbedit
save current_odb.odb

2) Stop all the running MIDAS processes, including mlogger and mserver using the web interface. Then stop mhttpd as well.

3) Remove your old ODB (we will recreate it after modifying MIDAS, using the backup you just made).

mv .ODB.SHM .ODB.SHM.20161104
rm /dev/shm/thomas_ODB_SHM

4) Make the following modifications to midas.  In this particular case I have increased the max number of open records from 256 to 1024.  You would need to change the constants if you want to change to other values

diff --git a/include/midas.h b/include/midas.h
index 02b30dd..33be7be 100644
--- a/include/midas.h
+++ b/include/midas.h
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ typedef std::vector<std::string> STRING_LIST;
-#define MAX_OPEN_RECORDS       256           /**< number of open DB records   */
+#define MAX_OPEN_RECORDS       1024           /**< number of open DB records   */
diff --git a/src/odb.c b/src/odb.c
index 47ace8f..ac1bef3 100755
--- a/src/odb.c
+++ b/src/odb.c
@@ -699,8 +699,8 @@ static void db_validate_sizes()
-   assert(sizeof(DATABASE_CLIENT) == 2112);
-   assert(sizeof(DATABASE_HEADER) == 135232);
+   assert(sizeof(DATABASE_CLIENT) == 8256);
+   assert(sizeof(DATABASE_HEADER) == 528448);

The calculation is as follows (in case you want a different number of open records): 
DATABASE_CLIENT = 64 + 8*MAX_OPEN_ERCORDS = 64 + 8*1024 = 8256
DATABASE_HEADER = 64 + 64*DATABASE_CLIENT = 64 + 64*8256 = 528448

5) Rebuild MIDAS

make clean; make

6) Create new ODB

odbedit -s 1000000

Change the size of the ODB to whatever you want.

7) reload your original ODB 

load  current_odb.odb

8) Rebuild your frontend against new MIDAS; then it should work and you should be able to produce more open records.

8.5*) Actually, I had a weird error where I needed to remove my .SYSTEM.SHM file as well when I first restarted my front-end.  Not sure if that was some unrelated error, but I mention it here for completeness.

This was a procedure based on something that originally was used for T2K (procedure by Renee Poutissou).  It is possible that not all steps are necessary and that there is a better way.  But this worked for me.

Also, any objections from other developers to tweaking the assert checks in odb.c so that the values are calculated automatically and MIDAS only needs to be touched in one place to modify the number of open records?

Let me know if it worked for you and I'll add these instructions to the Wiki.

Thomas


> oOne additional comment. I was able to trace the setting of the error code DB_NO_MEMORY 
> to a call to the db_add_open_record() by mserver that is initiated during the start-up 
> of my frontend via an RPC call. I checked with a debug printout that I have indeed 
> reached the number of MAX_OPEN_RECORDS
> 
> > Hi Midas forum,
> > 
> > I'm having a problem with odb hotlinks after increasing sub-directories in an 
> > odb. I now get the error code DB_NO_MEMORY after some db_open_record() calls. I 
> > tried 
> > 
> > 1) increasing the parameter DEFAULT_ODB_SIZE in midas.h and make clean, make
> > but got the same error
> > 
> > 2) increasing the parameter  MAX_OPEN_RECORDS in midas.h and make clean, make
> > but got fatal errors from odbedit and my midas FE and couldnt run anything
> > 
> > 3) deleting my expts SHM files and starting odbedit with "odbedit -e SLAC -s 
> > 0x1000000" to increse the odb size but got the same error?
> > 
> > 4) I tried a different computer and got the same error code DB_NO_MEMORY
> > 
> > Maybe I running into some system limit that restricts the humber of open records? 
> > Or maybe I've not increased the correct midas parameter?
> > 
> > Best ,Tim.