Hi,
as I could not get any answers sofar I need to ask again as I fear that this behaivour might corrupt databases.

I recently experienced an engine crash with FB 1.0.3 on Win2000 Server.
Clients developed with IBO 4.3Aa and Delphi7. Clients and Server run on a Dell 2 Processor Xeon Server with HT enabled. DB is fixed to use 1 CPU only via configuration file.

The follwing is taken from the dblogfile arround crashtime:

DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 15:25:00 2004
gds__free: pool corrupted
DBSERVER1 (Server) Tue Jun 08 15:58:21 2004
gds__free: attempt to release bad block
DBSERVER1 (Server) Tue Jun 08 15:58:22 2004
gds__free: attempt to release bad block
DBSERVER1 (Server) Tue Jun 08 15:58:51 2004
INET/inet_error: send errno = 10054
[...]
DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 16:00:49 2004
C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\ibserver.exe: terminated abnormally (-1)
DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 16:00:49 2004
INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054
[...]
DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 16:00:50 2004
Guardian starting: C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\ibserver.exe
DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 16:00:51 2004
INET/inet_error: connect errno = 10061
DBSERVER1 (Client) Tue Jun 08 16:00:55 2004
INET/inet_error: send errno = 10054

Clould somebody please explain what may have caused the pool to corrupt and which pool that is.
What is this errormessage and it's subsequent attempt "to release bad block" wanting to tell me?

DB file seems to be intact by what I take from gfix validate, but will this allways be so after this type of crash?

Also what strikes me as strange is that I'm getting 10054 errors. DB and Clients are residing on the same machine. Connection string is IP:C:\dbpath\dbfile.fdb ? What might be the cause here. I expected to get these messages on "real wire connections" only.

Thanks for explaining.
Best Regards
Björn Latte