At 01:58 AM 27/06/2010, you wrote:

>Hi all Firebird friends
>
>Have posted this one as well on DEVSHED.COM but so far no help received. Will try this forum
>
>I have a weird problem. A Firebird 2.1.3 Firebird classic database at customer site where the fb_inet_server.exe process eats up all memory on server and then continues to use swap file until server crashes.

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>It is a new created VMWare instans with 4Gb of Ram but the problem was exactly the same on a physical server before the change to VMWare.

Look at the cache size. Depending on the page size, the cache size should be between 50 and 150 pages for Classic server in this configuration.

./heLen