Subject Re: [firebird-support] FB Terminated abnormally
Author Helen Borrie
At 08:23 AM 2/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:


>Hi
>
>The last few days I have gotten this error in my FB log:
>
>DBSRV01 (Client) Mon Nov 01 15:53:04 2004
> C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe:
>terminated abnormally (4294967295)
>
>
>I'm running FB 1.5.0 on WIndows 2000.
>
>At this point I am not quite sure, what the users where doing, but
>I'm looking into it.
>
>What I would like, is to know, if anyone could give me some
>information on what to look for ?
>
>As far as I can tell, I can't see anything from this error number
>alone.


That number is not an error code, it's 4 Gb + 1 --- 1 byte more the largest
amount of memory that Windows can report, amongst other things. It's 2
more than the absolute range of numbers available to a signed 32-bit
integer. Hmm...what else...? One byte more than the maximum limit size of
an external file....nice that the server was able to pick up something
about the OS exception before crashing.

./heLen