Re: Thread::Queue::Any and Storable

At 16:59 +0000 1/29/04, [email protected] (PerlDiscuss - 
Perl Newsgroups an wrote:
>I'm currently using Thread::Queue::Any for hashtables.  If I enqueue up to
>100 hashtables consecutively onto a queue and have worker threads
>dequeueing them as they appear, my program works fine.  However if I try
>to enqueue 200 hashtables consecutively, I get the following error: Thread
>failed to start: Corrupted storable string (v2.6) at Storable.pm
>(autosplit into thaw.al).  And if I try to enqueue 500 hashtables, I get
>the errror: Thread failed to start: Bad hash at Storable.pm (autosplit
>into _freeze.al).  If I enqueue anymore than that, I get a seg fault and
>core dump.  Has anyone seen this problem before?  I looked into the
>Storable module to see how it works, and found it to be very complex. 
>
>My requirements are such that I may have as many as a few thousand
>hashtables being put on the queue consecutively...I'm wondering if this is
>possible using these modules?

This shouldn't happen.  Do you have an example program that 
demonstrates the problem. And also let us know on what platform and 
what version of Perl you're using?


Liz