--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Steffen Heil" <lists@s...>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> > After a while my buggy application managed to get xinetd to

restart the

> gds_db service for too many open connections.
> > when xinetd allows client connections again, ALL of the previous
> connections remain open on the server..
> > I would expect the existing connetions to get dropped/killed when this
> happens.
>
> You seem to see xinetd as some kind of service manager like ssc for

windows.

> Thats not true. xinetd is a process launcher.
>
> When a tcp connection to a port is established, xinetd lauches the

matching

> application.
> Thats it. The application has nothing more to do with xinetd.
>
> As classic server handles each connection in a separate process, it

will not

> disconnect old connections when restarting single ones. Old connections
> without clients will time out and will then be closed.
>
> However, you can propably archieve what you want using super server,

which

> is anyway more resourcesaving than classic server when used with many
> connections.
>
> > I can't remember if Firebird automatically cleans these up after a

certain

> period of inactivity.
>
> Not, if the client is still alive, but if the client is down and the tcp
> connection times out, there is nothing to do for the server process

any more

> and it will terminate.
>
> Regards,
> Steffen
>
>

Thanks Steffen.