Hi all,

We are running FB SC 64 bit build on a Win2k8R2 machine.

>From the process explorer I can see that there are around 300-400 connections 
>(threads) for the Firebird process, distributed amongst a similar amount of 
>databases, i.e. typically one or two users per DB, though there may be more 
>connections for some of the DB's. The customers do "normal" DB-work, but they 
>also backup databases, modify metadata, and thus shut down the databases  and 
>"throw off" other users, also when doing restores. All in all a variety of 
>operations on lots of different database files. We do all backups and restores 
>via the "new" WAN-friendly backup function introduced in FB2.5.2.

Several times a day we experience a server crash where the FB process simply 
terminates, no log entries in the firebird log, but of course an entry in the 
windows system logs:

"The Firebird Server - DefaultInstance service terminated unexpectedly.  It has 
done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 0 
milliseconds: Restart the service."

We get regular "INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054", but that is not very 
unusual, except that sometimes we get a whole lot of "INET/inet_error: read 
errno = 10054" at the exact same time, like the server simply drops (all?) 
connections. Today at 10:20 we had 65 entries with the same time stamp, but no 
log entry in the windows system logs, so the FB server itself survived. Of 
course, these events can be caused by an internet provider having a glitch and 
is not necessarily caused by the FB-server.

We experienced this with FB2.5.1 and hoped that the problem would be eliminated 
with 2.5.2, but it didn't disappear. And now we have tried one of the latest 
nightly builds (2.5.3.26612) but with the same result (the above system log 
entry is from 2.5.3).

I want to try to set up the system for CS instead of SC, hoping that only one 
process at a time will crash thus leaving the other connections running. I want 
to install the debug build to hope for a useful trace log so that "we" (meaning 
you FB-developers :) can hunt down the error.

Are there any advices, comments, or hints, that I should know of before going 
this way? Are there any cook books regarding how to setup the system for doing 
proper and interesting crash dumps?

Best regards
Poul Dige





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