At 01:30 AM 18/01/2008, you wrote:

>I run Apache 1.3.39; Linux 2.6.9; with PHP 5.2.4 and firebird 1.5.4

>Yes actually i find it odd too that its only firebird that is affected by
>the too many files open thing. As i said before we do not use external
>tables or symlinks to any databases. Databases are mapped in aliases.conf
>and the scripts access them using the symbolic names contained in
>aliases.conf
>
>All databases are held in a folder that is owned and writable by the user
>"firebird" and the firebird server process runs under the said "firebird"
>user account. I hope this info sheds some new light on our environment

Q. Which Firebird model? (Classic/Superserver)

Concurrently.--
Q. How many databases?
Q. How many users?
Q. How many script instances?

Please don't top-post. Please trim your posts.

^heLen