--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 06:19 AM 2/03/2005 +0000, Dave McNeill wrote:
>
>
> >I am watching a gfix -sweep which has been running for nearly two
> >hours. It's coming up to 6am and I need to bring the site back up. Is
> >it safe to kill this process?
>
> If the database is in shutdown, you can bring it back online while the
> sweep is running. It would be a shame to lose two hours' worth of

garbage

> cleanup.
>
> ./helen

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm a bit worried that it's taking a lot of CPU (100% of one CPU in a
dual Xeon box running Red Hat 9). I've brought the site up now and the
database is OK, however, I'd like that gfix process not to be there.

Dave McNeill