Hi Fabiano! Perhaps Debian is trying to put in cache your database file and this file cache is competing for the available memory with the page cache of Firebird. In Firebird 2.5(unfortunately I don't know Firebird 3) the parameters to control the comsuption of memory for the file cache are: FileSystemCacheSizeFileSystemCacheThreshold
On Thursday, May 24, 2018, 8:30:09 AM CDT, Fabiano Bonin fabiano.bo...@personalsoft.com.br [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Hi, Omacht! Indeed, it needs a sweep. There a scheduled script that runs every night to sweep the database, and it broke with FB3 upgrade. I fixed the script and it will run this night. But, do you think the memory exaustion can be related to this issue? Regards, Fabiano 2018-05-24 2:47 GMT-03:00 Omacht András aoma...@mve.hu [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>: Hi Fabiano! You should run garbage collection (sweep). Oldest transaction 905 Oldest active 62303005 Oldest snapshot 62303005 Next transaction 62382577 András OMACHT ANDRÁS fejlesztési igazgató [cid:image001.png@01CFE703. C881C660] Libra Szoftver Zrt. 1113 Budapest, Karolina út 65. Tel.: +36 1 255 3939 Fax: +36 1 209 1477 http://www.libraszoftver.hu<ht tp://www.libraszoftver.hu/> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups. com [mailto:firebird-support@ yahoogroups..com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 4:29 PM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups. com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird using all available memory Hi, Thomas. It is zero. I presume in this case it uses the system default, right? Regards, Fabiano Database header page information: Flags 0 Generation 62390727 System Change Number 0 Page size 4096 ODS version 12.0 Oldest transaction 905 Oldest active 62303005 Oldest snapshot 62303005 Next transaction 62382577 Sequence number 0 Next attachment ID 1290314 Implementation HW=AMD/Intel/x64 little-endian OS=Linux CC=gcc Shadow count 0 Page buffers 0 Next header page 0 Database dialect 3 Creation date Apr 4, 2018 7:03:44 Attributes force write [A képet a feladó eltávolította.] 2018-05-22 18:30 GMT-03:00 'Thomas Kragh-Pedersen (TKG)' t...@kmd.dk<mailto:t...@kmd.dk> [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups. com<mailto:firebird-support@ yahoogroups.com>>: Hey Fabiano Perhaps DefaultDbCachePages is overwritten by database header information. Gstat -h will tell you that. Look for “Page buffers” From: firebird-support@yahoogroups. com<mailto:firebird-support@ yahoogroups.com> <firebird-support@yahoogroups. com<mailto:firebird-support@ yahoogroups.com>> Sent: 18. maj 2018 16:12 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups. com<mailto:firebird-support@ yahoogroups...com> Subject: [firebird-support] Firebird using all available memory Hi, I have a Debian 9 Linux server with 8GB of memory, a database with 30GB, page size 4KB, and Firebird 3.0.3 running in superserver mode and about 150-200 concurrent connections. In my firebird.conf I have changed the following properties: DefaultDbCachePages = 524288 # 2GB TempCacheLimit = 1024M # 1GB LockMemSize = 2M As superserver uses a shared cache, I presumed the total used memory should stay between 3GB and 4GB, but it keeps growing during the day until it reaches the 8GB limit and Firebird shuts down with this message: debian Fri May 18 10:45:35 2018 Shutting down the server with 150 active connection(s) to 2 database(s), 0 active service(s) I am checking the active transactions during the day, and altought there are some old (2h to 3h) active transactions, I don't that an old active transaction should cause this, but I am reporting anyway, maybe it is relevant. Do someone have some advice to what should I do to prevent this from happening? Maybe my understanding about how Firebird uses memory is incorrect, so any advice about how I should calculate the required amount of memory needed is welcome. PS: I have migrated from FB 2.5 recently (previously I did use superclassic mode), and these problems started after the migration. Regards, Fabiano Vi gør opmærksom på, at denne e-mail kan indeholde fortrolig information. Hvis du ved en fejltagelse modtager e-mailen, beder vi dig venligst informere afsender om fejlen ved at bruge svarfunktionen. Samtidig beder vi dig slette e-mailen i dit system uden at videresende eller kopiere den. Selvom e-mailen og ethvert vedhæftet bilag efter vores overbevisning er fri for virus og andre fejl, som kan påvirke computeren eller it-systemet, hvori den modtages og læses, åbnes den på modtagerens eget ansvar. Vi påtager os ikke noget ansvar for tab og skade, som er opstået i forbindelse med at modtage og bruge e-mailen. Please note that this message may contain confidential information. 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