> Hi,
> I'm running Firebird SS on Linux Debian Etch on a rather medium
> sized database ( 600 MBytes aprox. ).
>
> After some days running I got the following error when an attempt to
> connect to the database is made:
>
> "Lock manager out of room"
>
> Watching into the firebird log file, I found the following trace of
> error messages:
>
> servin (Server) Thu Feb 22 12:11:23 2007
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 88
>
> servin (Server) Thu Feb 22 12:11:23 2007
> INET/inet_error: send errno = 88
>
> servin (Server) Thu Feb 22 12:11:23 2007
> Database:
> I/O error for file "/var/lib/firebird2/data/mydatabase.fdb"
> Error while trying to write to file
> Bad file descriptor.
>
> If I stop and start the server, back up and restore the database, it
> returns to normality for a few days and then, back to the same error,
> with the same trace in the /var/log/firebird.log file.
>
> I'm not sure of the origin of the problem because previously I run for
> months the same database in another server with Fedora Core 2, with no
> problems at all.
>
> So Hardware and OS changed and both are under my suspect ...

IIRC, Debian distribution have manually patched FB... i can be wrong
here as i don't know details about their patches

Regards,
Vlad