[erlang-questions] ets:select badarg question (R15B)

[Matthew Evans]

Hi
These are the options








ets:new(StationIdTableName,[{keypos,2},named_table,public]),
The only odd things I can think of is that during the select records are getting deleted and added. Also, the select operation is run slowly (over 900 seconds)
Again, this isn't every time I get the crash.
Matt

> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:49:14 +0200
> From: sverker.eriksson@REDACTED
> To: mattevans123@REDACTED
> CC: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] ets:select badarg question (R15B)
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> What options are you using when the table is created?
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> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP
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> Matthew Evans wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running a select with a continuation on a public ets table with approximately 20,000 records.
> > The original call to the select is: ets:select(TableName,[{'$1',[],['$_']}],RecordsToGet), then an ets:select/1 on the continuation.
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> > The process that is spawned to walk the table is sitting in a recursive loop doing a select (grabbing about 150 records each time), processing the matching records (which includes possibly deleting some of these records), then sleeping for a few seconds. It takes about 900 seconds to walk through the table. As well as records getting deleted, new records are added to the table during this time.
> > Every now and then I get an exception in the process doing the select/1:
> > Error in process <0.16218.1> on node 'xxxxx@REDACTED' with exit value: {badarg,[{ets,select,[{'table_E0:39:D7:00:11:80',301,6,<<0 bytes>>,[{p_MacEntry.......  (truncated here)
> > This is the code (all running in the same process that started the select) obviously the last ets:select is causing the crash:
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> > start_aging1(AgeInterval,MaxAge,SelectData) ->
> >      start_aging1(AgeInterval,MaxAge,SelectData,0).
> > start_aging1(_AgeInterval,_MaxAge,'$end_of_table',RecsAged) ->
> >      gen_server:cast(?MODULE,{completed_aging_operation,RecsAged});
> > start_aging1(_AgeInterval,MaxAge,{Matches,'$end_of_table'},RecsAged) ->
> >      RecordsAgedCount = age_records(Matches,[],MaxAge*1000000,os:timestamp()),
> >      gen_server:cast(?MODULE,{completed_aging_operation,RecsAged+RecordsAgedCount});
> > start_aging1(AgeInterval,MaxAge,{Matches,Continuation},RecsAged) ->
> >      RecordsAgedCount = age_records(Matches,[],MaxAge*1000000,os:timestamp()),
> >      timer:sleep(AgeInterval),
> >      start_aging1(AgeInterval,MaxAge,ets:select(Continuation),RecsAged+RecordsAgedCount).
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> > I'm not sure what could be the cause of the select getting a bad arg.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Matt                                             		 	   		  
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