Subject Re: [firebird-support] memory usage rising
Author Chris M
Chris M wrote:
> Uwe Grauer wrote:
>
>>Chris Meelhuysen wrote:
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>>>What types of things should i look for that could cause memory usage to
>>>go up and up on firebird 1.5.2 over each passing day so as a week later
>>>there is so much memory in use you cant shut down firebird and you have
>>>to kill it and reboot the server, etc.
>>
>>
>>Maybe an UDF with doesn't free its memory.
>>Do you have very long running transactions?
>>You really should hardcommit your work.
>>Show us your Statistics (gstat -h) please.
>>
>>Uwe
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>
>
> Its a customer's database I'm waiting to get a copy so I can get the
> statistics. But I can say I dont use any UDFs. Its a legacy app that
> was converted from paradox to interbase then firebird. I'm afraid that
> things aren't handled properly like commits etc. Its set to
> ReadRepeated right now if that answers anything.
>
>
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