I don't really know a whole heap about Linux, but is there anything in the
interbase.log file, something to imply that FB is crashing?
JAC
""georgethenorge"" > I have FirebirdSS-1.0.0.796 running on RedHat Linux
7.1.

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> Every week or so I end up with a huge /tmp/core file, presumably some sort

of core memory dump. Since /tmp seems to be a creation of FB, and FB is the
only thing users are logging into on this particular Linux box, I can only
conclude that this is being started by FB.

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> It seems to be initiated in conjunction with a user logging in.
>
> I have managed to reduce the size of the /tmp/core file by changing an

entry in /etc/profile: ulimit -S -c 10000, so at least it no longer takes
the database server down due to lack of drive space.

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> I would, however, prefer a solution that nips the problem in the bud.
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> Ideas, anyone?
>
> Thank you,
>
> George Helmke