Bitcoind / litecoind error: db11exception cannot allocate memory (3 LTC Reward)

[2Kool4Skewl]

Update: I'm now offering a 3 Ltc Reward to anyone who can fix this issue for me.

I'm running debian amd64 stable and sid on multiple machines.  Every time I try to download the blockchain for bitcoin or litecoin using bitcoind or litecoind, I can only download so many blocks and then I get a repeating error stating, "db11exception::txn: cannot allocate memory"

I'm not running out of physical memory.  I think this may have to do with a file/size limit set on debian.  I tried the command "ulimit -n 2048" but that didn't work.

Anybody have the same problem or know how to fix it?

[2Kool4Skewl]

Apparently, Ubuntu users don't have this problem.  Spent all night googling this.  I can't believe other users haven't experienced this same problem, because Debian is so popular.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

[2Kool4Skewl]

Here's the exact error message.  It just keeps repeating.

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EXCEPTION: 11DbException
DbEnv::txn_begin: Cannot allocate memory
litecoin in ProcessMessages()

[2Kool4Skewl]

I also tried the pre-compiled binary and got the same error message.

[vm1990]

strange but cant see it being file size issues as the database gets split at 2GB, i cant really help with linux i cry when i try to use it XD maybe try changing the disk type to something else...

[kjj]

This message usually means that you are running on a VM.

[2Kool4Skewl]

I'm using an ext3 filesystem that should support large enough file sizes.

Also, I'm not running it on a VM.

[Snail2]

By using lsof and sysctl you can check if it's an file limit issue. You can find some good examples here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-procfs-file-descriptors.html

If it's a limit problem you can change that permanently:
http://oschgan.com/drupal/node/57

You can find some ideas here too:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89639.0