Subject Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction
Author Nico Callewaert
>> I guess this is something that is better changed to 20000 ?
>
> Best value is highly depends on nature of your application. 20000 is
> just a default which you can use in absence of more educated estimation.
> Auto-sweep interval must be surely bigger than maximal number of
> simultaneously running transactions. Say, 2-3 times bigger.
> If it's value is lower than max number of parallel transactions,
> sweep will be run in vain, degrading performance. If much bigger,
> stalled transaction won't be detected for longer time, which also have
> negative performance impact (though much lesser) because of bigger
> amount of record versions (in the case of stalled transaction only).
>
> SY, SD.
>

Hello Dimitry,

That explains a lot.
Completely understood. Will change settings !

Thanks !
N.