At 07:33 AM 17/08/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>we don't use UDF's nor Events
>Backup is done each day
>there is no antivirus program runing
>there should be enough space for temp-file (2GB)
>we don't know what the server is doing during the crash, because its
>kind of a 24/7 system.
>
>The database is around 2GB (at the moment). About 500000 records will
>be inserted each day. The data insertion is done from a JBoss-Server
>via JDBC (Jaybird 1.5.4) on a RedHat 7.2 system (Double XEON)
>
>The data of one special table is needed only 30 days, so we delete
>older data periodically (400000 records --> GC is very busy);
>otherwise the database is getting to large.
>
>Infos about the server-machine:
>Linux version 2.4.20-28.7smp
>Filesystem: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19
>Mount: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Are you saying that you have the database on a mounted filesystem? Or, can
you confirm that the filesystems where the database AND the server root
reside are both on filesystems local to the host machine?

>The 64-bit file I/O version of Firebird is installed.

I'm a bit doubtful about this for RH 7.2. Are you certain that the OS
supports 64-bit i/o?

./heLen