RangeError: length > kMaxLength about insight-api

[olalonde]

It seems that insight-api tries to load the entire file in memory and hits Node.js's buffer size limit?

[matiu]

Interesting.

In the installations of bitcoind I saw, the .dat files where always limited to 128MB. Do you have any special configuration setting to make that files bigger?

[olalonde]

It turns out older bitcoin versions used to store data in larger block files. I fixed the problem by concatenating all my blk files (cat *.blk > bootstrap.dat), creating a new bitcoin data directory and moving that bootstrap.dat file in the directory. This regenerates the block files with the correct sizes.

[matiu]

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Olivier Lalonde [email protected]
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It turns out older bitcoin versions used to store data in larger block files. I fixed the problem by concatenating all my blk files (cat *.blk > bootstrap.dat), creating a new bitcoin data directory and moving that bootstrap.dat file in the directory. This regenerates the block files with the correct sizes.

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[np]

Same issue here. I'm trying the same workaround.

In case this happen to be treated as "won't fix" I would suggest reporting a such advise instead of the current error message.

[matiu]

, we will can a try/catch, explaining this. thanks.

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Nicolas Pouillard <[email protected]

wrote:

Same issue here. I'm trying the same workaround.

In case this happen to be treated as "won't fix" I would suggest reporting
a such advise instead of the current error message.

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[matiu]

Closing this one here. Moved the related issue to: #63