Just last weekend we had a similar problem. CPU on the server was
pegged at 100%. Based on some detec tive work in the event viewer
(windows server) we determined that this had been the case for over
48hrs. We do a nightly backup of all of our databases at 1:00AM and
it appears that problems began right around 1:02 or 1:04. We have
several small databases and have checked the logs for each backup and
have manually performed a backup and restore on all of them. All logs
look fine. Furthermore, the same processes have been running now for
several days with no problem. we haven't yet performed Ann's check,
but we will.

We are stumped. Windows 2000, FB 1.52

Rob

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Guido Klapperich
<guido.klapperich@t...> wrote:

> > When you say "never stops", how long do you give FB before restarting
> > it? Garbage Collection can take a few minutes to a few hours(maybe
> > more), depending on the amount of garbage that needs to be processed.