Looks like you are short of some resources.
I also guess that you have non-zero value of sweep interval, do you ?
You should disable automatic sweep by setting it to 0.

Ivan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Taylor" <scott@...>
> My /opt/interbase/interbase.log file is filling up with this error message:
>
> intrbase (Server) Sun Jul 6 17:04:02 2003
> Database: /opt/planning/disp/dispatch.gdb
> cannot start sweep thread (0)
>
> I can't find any reference to it in the documentation. Actually, the docs
> I have says, "Refer to the Language Reference for a list of error messages
> that can appear in this file." A search of LangRef.pdf for occurrence of
> "interbase.log" returns not found. Maybe I need new docs?
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means and how I should go about to fix it?
> Running FirebirdSS.-1.0.2.908-0 on Linux 2.4.7