--- Philippe Makowski wrote:

> and your xinetd.conf ?
> the values of instances and cps
> perhaps they are too small ?

Sure Philippe, it looks like this..


[root@x345 ~]# more /etc/xinetd.conf

defaults
{
instances = 300
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
cps = 25 30
}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d


I didn't have any idea of cps before. But when I did a search on it, I
found this:

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The "25" is the maximum number of connections allowed per second
(that's per service). If it exceeds that, it will be disabled for 30
seconds.
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Do you think the firebird service freezes because of this setting?
Actually when it hangs, my phone rings immediately and I reboot the
server without waiting for 30 secs :)

PS: Yesterday and today I didn't do any monitoring on the database and
it works fine :)