> Which Firebird version are you using?

Version 1.5.1

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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Milan Babuskov
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:22 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] TempDirectories

Rick Debay wrote:

> We mounted a tmpfs filesystem on /tmp using defaults, which means the
> max size would have been 1 GB. When we restored a 9 GB database after
> four hours we received an error that there was no more space on /tmp.
> How much temporary space should a restore take?

I believe temp space is used while building indexes, so it all depends
on the size of index and not the entire database size.

> In firebird.conf we had TempDirectories set to /tmp;/var/tmp but it
> didn't switch to /var/tmp which had plenty of room. I think I

remember

> reading that multiple directories for TempDirectories doesn't work.

Is

> that correct?

There was a bug regarding this, but I believe it is fixed. Which
Firebird version are you using?

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Milan Babuskov

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