Subject Re: FB server giving away memory, seemingly in endless loop
Author bjorgeitteno
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Jason Dodson <jasond@b...>
wrote:
>
> It is possible that you are looking at currently in-memory
allocation. Look at the virtual memory allocation for the
> process and see if maybe it all got swapped out.

The figures are from Task Manager, and AFAIK there are no other
importent processes running simultaneously. In my 5.5 years of
running IB/Firebird I've never seen memory figures evolving like this
one . . .

> bjorgeitteno wrote:
> > (FB 1.5.1.4481 server on W2k 1.5GB 4-proc.)
> >
> > Hi, All !
> >
> > The problem is as follows: Yesterday, a stored procedure
seemingly
> > halted - that is, it didn't finish in 5 hours while earlier
having
> > finished in 10 minutes.
> >
> > Finding 1: Processor 2&3 were both running on some ~30%, which is
> > reasonable when we discovered a CPU affinity mask of 6. Was
changed
> > to 2, and ever since only this processor is utilized (says Task
> > Manager).
> >
> > ...the service was killed & started again, but at no
avail. "Halted"
> > within the same procedure. Now:
> >
> > Finding 2: Like normal, a CPU utilization, frenetic disk activity
and
> > increasing memory consumption (some 25MB) in the beginning. After
> > some 30 seconds, the processor went to 99% and remained so WHILE
> > MEMORY CONSUMPTION DROPPED BIT BY BIT DOWN TO ~900kB.
> >
> > What on earth could make FB release most of its memory ? I have
never
> > seen anything like this - on the contrary - a session's memory
pool
> > is never reduced within the session (right ?) !
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > regards
> > Bjoerge Saether
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