hi!

i may have multiple threads reading or writing to a berkely db, i am
not using transactions. I wanted to synchronize these accesses. i am
using java btw, so i thought about using synchronized blocks for
database.get and database.put, but i dont know what i object should i
synchronize on. one option was the db name ( i might be accessing more
than one db at a time as well, so there will be multiple db's open with
read/write happening in all of them ).

sorry, if it seems like a stupid question, but this is the first time i
am using databases. any suggestions would be welcome

thanks

You could look at synchronizing off the database or environment handles
but I'm still not sure what you are trying to accomplish.

I also wonder why you would not just use transactions with locking and
a deadlock detectory.

Ron

hi!
i am using transactions now, and my problem seems to be solved. but now
i keep getting another error :
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Cannot allocate memory
at com.sleepycat.db.internal.db_javaJNI.DbEnv_open(Na tive Method)
at com.sleepycat.db.internal.DbEnv.open(DbEnv.java:23 5)
at
com.sleepycat.db.EnvironmentConfig.openEnvironment (EnvironmentConfig.java:714)

when i open the environment.

any idea why i get this error.

thanks in advance