I am not so sure this is actually an issue. Linux works differently in
how it uses memory. More or less, as it uses it, it keeps using it for
whatever it can (Usually cache/buffers). In short, Linux uses all of
your memory all of the time.

More details can be found at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management

Jason

> Michele Bassan wrote:
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> > We are moving a client-server application from Access to Firebird.
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> > We tried with a Redhat Linux with
> > SuperServer for Linux NPTL V1.5.2 installed
> > and also with a Debian Linux Superserver v 1.51,
> > but the problem remains the same.
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> > When we have a few simultaneous active clients, the memory used by the
> > Firebird server process starts to grow of about 5 MB/minute, and keeps
> > growing without any limit until the server crashes.
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> > Any idea on any parameter that has to be configured in firebird.conf
> > to prevent this, or of any bad programming that may have been used in
> > our client aplications?
> > Our client applications open the connection at the beginnning
> > of the operations and re-use always the same connection for
> > many hours.
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> Is the user interface based on browsing tables (in grids)?
> Are queries closed and transactions committed on a regular basis?
> It's ok to use the same connection, but using the same transaction for
> hours is (normally) not a good thing.
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> Aage J.
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