2007-06-08

Hitting the transaction limit

It looks like it will be necessary to occasionally break down and re-establish the connection to the database in the importDump.php utility. Running it for too long results in the following:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance>"C:\Program Files\Zend\Core\bin
\php.exe" ImportDump.php s:\enwiki-20070402-pages-articles.xml
100 (50.09 pages/sec 50.09 revs/sec)
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exception 'com_exception' with message 'Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Description: Cannot start more transactions on this session.' in C:\PHP\includes\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado5.inc.php:290
Stack trace:
#0 C:\PHP\includes\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado5.inc.php(290): com->BeginTrans()
#1 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\DatabaseADODB.php(1135): ADODB_ado->BeginTrans()
#2 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\JobQueue.php(170): DatabaseADODB->begin()
#3 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\HTMLCacheUpdate.php(81): Job::batchInsert(Array)
#4 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\HTMLCacheUpdate.php(46): HTMLCacheUpdate->insertJobs(Object(ResultWrapper))
#5 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\Title.php(2424): HTMLCacheUpdate->doUpdate()
#6 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\Article.php(2644): Title->touchLinks()
#7 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\SpecialImport.php(363): Article::onArticleCreate(Object(Title))
#8 [internal function]: WikiRevision->importOldRevision()
#9 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\DatabaseADODB.php(1048): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#10 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\SpecialImport.php(510): DatabaseADODB->deadlockLoop(Array)
#11 [internal function]: WikiImporter->importRevision(Object(WikiRevision))
#12 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance\importDump.php(58): call_user_func(Array, Object(WikiRevision))
#13 [internal function]: BackupReader->handleRevision(Object(WikiRevision), Object(WikiImporter))
#14 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\SpecialImport.php(761): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#15 [internal function]: WikiImporter->out_revision(Resource id #55, 'revision')
#16 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\includes\SpecialImport.php(426): xml_parse(Resource id #55, ']] and [[Botswa...', 0)
#17 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance\importDump.php(109): WikiImporter->doImport()
#18 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance\importDump.php(91): BackupReader->importFromHandle(Resource id #54)
#19 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance\importDump.php(129): BackupReader->importFromFile('s:\bauch\enwiki...')
#20 {main}
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wiki193\mediawiki\maintenance>

3 comments:

Ra Fa said...

Hi, I´m having a similar problem. How did you fix it? Thank you.

DJ said...

Although I regarded it as a temporary fix, what I came up with has so far shown no signs of being temporary, since I have as yet been unable to determine a better solution to the problem. The temporary fix was to comment out the transaction code in the function Database::deadlockLoop() as implemented in my database class.

DJ said...

The problem turns out to be (it looks like) that a transaction was started in DatabaseADODB::deadlockLoop(), and then another one attempts to start in Job::batchInsert(). It was my mistake in implementing deadlockLoop(). I had called $this->mConn->BeginTrans() rather than $this->begin() (which will not start a new transaction when one has already been started).