Hi Mark, Right now i'm looking in a way to reclaim the space right away without killing the process. Is it helping if i change the FB flavor to "superclassic", assuming this fires only 1 instance of the db, so the file will be opened only 1 time ?!
Regarding the filesize, i'll also have a look. Regards, Jerome ---In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, <mark@...> wrote: On 21-11-2013 00:58, Jerome Bossert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FB classic 2.5 on ubuntu server 12.04, and i have a disk space > utilization issue : > > my wcdata.fdb is 25 G large. > ... > I think the file marked as (deleted) is still using space on the drive... > > if i do a kill pid, it release the space, but i want to understand the issue > and fix it in a proper way. Which issue: that the file is still open, or the fact it is so large? On Linux you can delete a file when it is opened in shared access, however the available space will not be reclaimed until all file handles have been closed. On size: look at your transaction handling (long running transactions on a database with a lot of updates can accrue a lot of garbage and require more disk space), blob usage etc. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
