evan@... wrote:

> Everything looked sweet until I started getting PHP-level errors about not
> being able to connect to the database. Check the box the database is running
> on (2.8 GHz dual processors) and running top found that gds_inet_server is
> munching 100% of resources, even with as few as 10 connections open. More
> worrying, some processes are staying alive like the goddamned BeeGees, in
> excess of half an hour at a time. I explicitly close every connection to the
> database in my code with ibase_close();

Are you using ibase_connect or ibase_pconnect ?
What version of Firebird are you using SS or CS ?
How does PHP interface to FB. Do you have interbase.so extension or you
compiled interbase support into php?

I guess I have more questions than answers...

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Milan Babuskov
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