Are you sure gfix hangs? Maybe is a hdd slowdown in the process. We had this same issue. Gbak does not clean all the mess on only one of our clients. The sollution is run a gfix and wait. Em 07/01/2014 18:22, <rmcgi...@oceris.com> escreveu:
> > > This is Classic, so yes, automatic sweep is disabled. My understanding is > that gbak does a sweep while doing a backup, which happens nightly, so > sweep should be happening then (if I understand it correctly that is). > Also, running a manual sweep hangs indefinitely. > > > As for the active transaction, restarting Firebird doesn't fix the > problem. The ONLY thing that fixes the problem is restoring from a backup > file to create a fresh file. According to Sinatica, there are no active > transactions while the problem is being exhibited. I will check the raw > MON tables, but would restarting the Firebird service not terminate any > active transactions? > > > Thanks for all the quick responses! > > > Ryan > >
