Hello, nathanelrick!

Monday, February 6, 2012, 5:38:42 PM, you wrote:

n> by kill mean
n> NET STOP "Firebird Server - DefaultInstance"

If this is Classic, you will just stop "listener" process,
and it will not stop sweeping. Maybe you have some fb_inet_server process
that "locks" sweeping.

If this is SuperServer, this will stop sweep, i.e.
this will stop FB completely, and yes, sweep to.

I suggest you, in both cases, to save output of fb_lock_print.exe
before you will try to stop anything.
This output can help to understand what caused sweep to lock.

n> this is not safe too do to this during a sweep ?

depends on what happened. If sweep is stalled, then it can
be safe to stop server. If sweep is working, stopping it usually dangerous.

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Dmitry Kuzmenko, www.ib-aid.com