>
> And now the firebird server stopped again.
>
> At around 20.15 the server stopped responding.
> When we got a notice, there where still 6 connections active. They
> could do nothing. And noone could connect to the DB.
> Firebird did not respond on port 3050.
> At the time, when the server died, the CPU utilisation dropped to
> almost 0%.
>
> We stopped the firebird process, which gave this in the log.
>
> Log:
>
> DBSRV06 (Server) Tue Dec 15 19:08:36 2009
>
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 104
>
> DBSRV06 (Server) Tue Dec 15 19:08:36 2009
>
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 104
>
> DBSRV06 (Client) Tue Dec 15 21:03:59 2009
>
> /opt/firebird/bin/fbguard: /opt/firebird/bin/fbserver killed
> (did not terminate)
>
> DBSRV06 (Client) Tue Dec 15 21:04:00 2009
>
> INET/inet_error: connect errno = 111
>
> DBSRV06 (Client) Tue Dec 15 21:04:00 2009
>
> /opt/firebird/bin/fbguard: guardian starting bin/fbserver
>
> DBSRV06 (Server) Tue Dec 15 21:07:52 2009
>
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 104
>
>
>
> I know that I am in for a hard talk tomorrow. Our customer have already
> send a lot of mails and SMS.
>
> I really would appreciate any input here.
>

you've ruled out an operating system TCP connection limit?
Alan