--- In ib-support@y..., lester@l... wrote:

> Have you closed and re-opened the 'client' programs?
>
> This is typical of a problem I had many moons ago, when
> using BDE to talk to IB6. If there is a connection being
> held open, the the multi-generation bit kickes in, and lots
> of copies are made. Drop all connections (?Sweep with a new
> connection - it was some time ago) and then re-make the
> connections, and then the size stops growing until the
> 'slack' is taken up again. If this is the case -> then ->
>
> You need to establich WHAT is keeping a transaction open
> that requires the old copies of the data.
>
> --
> Lester Caine
> -----------------------------
> L.S.Caine Electronic Services

thanks for your help, but the "client" program is a Perl-script using
DBI. But I correctly establisch a connection, start a new transaction,
commit the transaction and close the db-connection.
sweeping does not help, file size growth in the same speed.