Subject Re: [firebird-support] problem with multiple fbserver instance
Author Helen Borrie
At 01:48 PM 18/07/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>hi all....
> i am running firebird in a cutdown linux system based on Fedora
>Core 2.
>Now the problem is at the startup the init script i.e
>the daemon /opt/firebird/bin/fbmgr -start -forever
>starts three instances and the number instances
>increases as more connections are established with the
>fbserver.
>
>-bash-2.05b# ps -e|grep fbserver
> 929 ? 00:00:00 fbserver
> 930 ? 00:00:00 fbserver
> 1002 ? 00:00:00 fbserver
>-bash-2.05b#
>
>please help.

No help needed. All in normal here. Only one of these is a process. The
others are threads. Superserver spawns one fbserver thread for each
connection and also runs various other threads for housekeeping tasks.

The first connection to a database causes the server to open that database
file and start a thread for that connection plus a garbage collection
thread, which runs in the background. Those are the three "instances" you
see here: the fbserver process and those two threads.

./heLen