Hi,



wie use the gemini odbc driver 2.1 in our front end (Microsoft access 2002)
- one connection to link the tables, one connection with odbc direct to
execute some procedures.



Some procedure-executions over odbcdirect uses some more time (within 5
seconds)



How can I understand these values, how were they okay?



Actualy the values are:



Oldest transact. 833

Oldest active 961

Next transaction 239191 - compared to the previous value 229603



For example the values from our other database with the same connection (ms
access Gemini)

(this database runs with superserver, the version is 1.5)

Oldest trans. 421146

Oldest active 435318

Oldest snapsh.435318

Next transact. 435682



Back to my problem with the other database.



How can I find the client or connection, which makes me some trouble? (In
can't change the lower value in the firebird.conf not until this evening)
The ms access-connection is the same like the other database without these
trouble.



How can I clear this problem? I can disconnect every clients this evening
and connect one for one again. Perhaps this helps to find the problem.



Thank you very much for your helping hand.



And thanks for more ideas, maybe the reason can be found.



Best regards



Olaf





Von: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Thomas Steinmaurer
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 13:46
An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] Problem Firebird Classic Server

>>> First my gstat -h statistics:
>>> Oldest transaction 833
>>> Oldest active 961
>>> Next transaction 229603
>> First of all, you have a transaction management problem, because during
>> 5 days of operation, the gap between OIT/OAT and next transaction grow
>> and will probably grow further.
>
> I just wanted to emphasize what Thomas said here, with this big a gap

after five days, I'm surprised that you actually manage to run several
months before the problems gets too big. At the time you got these
statistics, there were still an open transaction that were amongst the first
1000 transactions started. To me, that indicates something very wrong in how
you handle your transactions (theoretically, that could mean 228000 versions
of each record in your database - in reality it will be a lot less, but
still too many). Transactions should be short, how short depends on your
particular situation, but five days is far too long in all cases.

>
> Do you use CommitRetaining - that at least wasn't a proper commit and

could hold up OIT/OAT (I don't know whether Fb 2.0 can have improved that or
not) or open one or more transactions that you do not close (that may even
be a transaction that doesn't update anything)?

Good one. CommitRetaining (aka soft commit) might be used from the
access components behind the scene, when using some sort of auto commit
mode. Or even worse, e.g. ZEOS does not support hard commits at all.
With Zeos, you have to disconnect from the database to get a hard
commit. I know there are quite some people out there who are using Zeos
without knowing the impact. ;-)

Any chance that the original poster is using the Zeos access components? ;-)

--
Best Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Series - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database, MS SQL Server and
NexusDB V2
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com





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