> Hi
>
> I asked a similar question some days ago, without getting a answer I
> could use.
> So here it goes again.
>
> Some 50 days ago we moved a client from one server to another.
> The old server was a Win2000 with 2Gb of RAM, Single Core CPU.
> Firebird is 1.5.0.
> The Db is some 8 Gb.
> On this old server it has been running for 3 years wihtou any problems
> with some 100+ connections.
>
> Now on the new server it a Win2003 64Bit, 4 Gb of RAM, Dual Core CPU
> and FB 1.5.0.
> The first 3 or 4 weeks i ran smoothly. But the last few weeks I get
> the following in the FB log file.
>
> DBSRV04 (Server) Sat Dec 16 17:17:13 2006
> Database: E:\DB\KAUFMANN\OCCLICENS.FDB
> internal gds software consistency check (cannot start thread)
>
> (A LOT of these. Happens when a user wants to connect).
>
>
> Now there also appears these (the last 3 days).
>
>
> DBSRV04 (Client) Sun Dec 17 14:46:37 2006
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe:
> terminated abnormally (4294967295)
>
>
> DBSRV04 (Client) Sun Dec 17 14:46:37 2006
> Guardian starting: C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe
>
>
>
> At this point everybody looses there connection.
>
> We havn't changed anything in the FB settings.
> Actually - they only differences are OS (Win2000 --> Win2003 64Bit)
> and CPU (Single Core --> Dual Core) and more RAM (2 Gb --> 4Gb).
>
> We have tried doing a backup - restore one nigth. That didn't help
> (And I would like to avoid that again, sinse the restore takes almost
> 6 hours to complete).
> We have tried restarting Win2003 server every nigth. That didn't help.
>
>
> So rigth now I have some 100+ very angry users in the phone. At almost
> all time (we sell a Point-Of-Sale system to shops, and in these
> christmas times the shops are open all the time).
>
>
> Does anyone have anything that could solve or narrow down my problem ?
>
> Regards
> Michael

the first thing I'd do to stop having angry clients is to move the system
back the way it was.
Did you do any testing ata ll on the new OS setup before moving all this
into production?
Alan