Out of memory dumping ledger-state of the node

[bjorn]

Hi there,

When I try to dump the ledger-state of the node, cardano-cli is killed:

Out of memory: Killed process <process_id> (cardano-cli) total-vm:kB, anon-rss:kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:kB oom_score_adj:0

It seems the swap file is not large enough, but that has not been a problem up till now.

Has anyone experienced the same thing and should I increase the swap file to resolve this, or is there a better solution.

[rdlrt]

You would ideally want more RAM, unless it is a one-off ledger-state dump.
Yes - it is a memory expensive task, and bigger the chain gets, larger the size of ledger-dump will likely be (as more folks register pools, keys over time). The fact that it reached OOM killer means you are not sized enough to run that command.

[laplasz]

it is also mentioned here: Questions from new SPO

[bjorn]

Problem solved by increasing the swap space