On 2 July 2015 at 15:09, Kathleen Alexander <katcalex at mit.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize if this is an incorrect forum for this question, but I am > pretty new to SQLite and have been unable to resolve this issue through > other searches. Feel free to direct me to a more appropriate forum. > > Essentially, I have written an application in C++ that interfaces (reads > and writes) with a SQLite database, and I am getting lots of 'database is > locked' errors. Right now, I am trying to establish whether those errors > are due to my improper use of SQLite itself, or if the real problem is that > SQLite is not a good fit for my application. > > My application runs on Linux (ubuntu 13.10), and is driven by a bash script > that spawns many (~60 on a 64 core workstation) instances of a serial, C++ > program, each of which opens its own connection to the database and > performs reads and writes.
http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html#dbcklst item 2 may be relevant Regards, Simon