Subject Re: [firebird-support] Sweeping that doesn't take 100% CPU
Author Aage Johansen
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:28:47 +0000 (UTC), robertgilland wrote:

> Sweep is Garbage Collection.
> We use transaction tables that regularly get emptied.
> Helen Borrie does the same thing.
> Thus we need to sweep but we don't want it to take over
> the full CPU.


How large are these tables? For how long is the CPU at 100% ?
If you have a lot of indexes on the tables, try to set them inactive before
sweeping (or use drop-sweep-create). In particular if your tables are
large with a lot of duplicates in the indexes.


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Aage J.