--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > ======
> > I started firebird 15 minutes before and it is using only 9M. Now

it

> > will keep increasing. After 4-5 hours it will reach 300MB. Then

we do

> > a fb restart.
> >
> > In fact that reminds me, there is a web interface also, written in
> > perl. I remember we don't care much about closing connections etc,
> > becuase we assume that the perl will do it for us. Let me see if

that

> > is the reason. It will take at least 2 hours to monitor.
> >
> > One more problem, may be you can help me. My application gives
> > segfault sometimes, but from the core dump I am not able to find

the

> > source of error. It does not show any function name, line number

etc.

> > It is compiled with '-g' option for debugging information. Are

there

> > any other options, which can give me some more info. Because It

is a

> > multi-threaded app, logging also does not help much.
> >
> > here is the dump.
> > ================
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x404f3000
> > #0 0x40210780 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0x40210780 in ?? ()
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xbf7ff5c4
> > ================
> >
> >
> > JS
>
> how often do you get these seg faults?
> In any case - keep looking - you might find yet another interface

you've

> forgotten about :-)
> Alan

I tested for four hours. It is still increasing, but at a slower
speed. In 4 hours it reached 182MB. Here is the database header.


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