--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "sternberg.andreas" <andreas.sternberg@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Firebird DB (Ver 2.1) of 566 Mbyte.
> The customer has of misstake turned off garbage collection and the size of the database increased and fbserver starts to consume a lot of memory
>
> I took a copy of the db to my computer, but get the following message when I try "gfix -mend" or "gbak -B":
> - Unable to allocate memory from operating system. -
>
> Fbserver starts to consume a lot of memory and after a while the operation fails.
>
> Any idea of how to save this database?
>