Graham,

At 08:49 AM 1/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Rail <daniel@a...>
>wrote:
>
> > Which version of Firebird are you using, Classic server or
> > Superserver?
> >
> > If it's Superserver, did you set the CPU affinity setting in
> > Firebird.conf?
>
>Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we are already running
>Superserver with the CpuAffinityMask set to 1 in firebird.conf.

Are you certain that all the backups are finished when you observe this
behaviour?

It might be one of your databases undergoing a large amount of garbage
collection during the course of extracting the data into the portable data
format (gbak does this...)

./heLen