Hi Group,

Firebird (1.5.0.4306) Superserver crashed on one of our production
Windows 2003 Server machines over the weekend, well sort of. It
crashed to the point where connections were refused but the process
did not die so guardian did not restarted the process. I am unsure
whether existing connections were affected at this stage. This morning
we manually restarted the Firebird service and it is now working fine.

The following line appears 19 times (with different timestamps and two
or three different databases) in the Firebird log:

FBSERVER (Server) Sat Feb 25 23:48:47 2006
Database: C:\MyDB.fdb
internal gds software consistency check (cannot start thread)

After these errors, the following message appears for every attempted
connection until we restarted the process this morning (hundreds of
messages):

FBSERVER (Client) Sun Feb 26 00:01:36 2006
INET/inet_error: connect errno = 10061

I know that SS spawns a different thread for each connection, and I
know that 10061 is the winsock code for 'connection refused' (which
makes sense if the server could not spawn a new thread for that
connection). This is the first such incident in nearly two years of
operation so I am looking for ideas as to what may have caused this.
Could it be a resource issue or is it more likely to be a known issue
with that version of Firebird? Is there anything else I can check? I
am in the process of confirming, but I highly doubt any changes were
made to the hardware or software over the weekend.

Thanks

Adam