William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> When I connect to a database and that connection uses resources like
> memory. Once that connection is closed should those resources be freed?

[snip]

> What is going on here? Why is Firebird consuming memory and not
> releasing it?

When reporting these kind of problems, it always good to write which
exact version of FB you're using, and on which OS. Also, are you using
forced writes or not?

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Milan Babuskov
http://fbexport.sourceforge.net