Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
> I have an FB 2.1.2 classic installation running a 70GB database with > the sweep interval set to 0 that runs gbak every night. I just > discovered last week that gbak was being run without garbage > collection (-g), probably to speed up the backup process. This led to > a gap between OAT and OI

Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-18 Thread Ann Harrison
Cheers, On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:45 PM, "Bob Murdoch" wrote: > I have an FB 2.1.2 classic installation running a 70GB database ... I just > discovered last week that gbak was being run without garbage > collection (-g), probably to speed up the backup process. This led to > a gap between OAT

RE: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Murdoch
Anne - -Original Message- From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ann Harrison Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:50 PM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck >> >&

RE: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-18 Thread Svein Erling Tysvær
>Database dialect1 >Creation date May 2, 2009 22:22:39 > >The server has been rebooted a number of times since the database was >last restored from a backup (which occurred more than a year ago). Actually, more than two years ago. Out of curiosity, why do you stil

Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
Ann, > On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:45 PM, "Bob Murdoch" wrote: > >> I have an FB 2.1.2 classic installation running a 70GB database ... I just >> discovered last week that gbak was being run without garbage >> collection (-g), probably to speed up the backup process. This led to >> a gap between OAT

Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-19 Thread Ann Harrison
Thomas, > > So you say that a gap OAT-OIT of 24 mio in this case doesn't harm server > performance? I thought, each transaction start has to read the TIP pages > starting from the OIT to the OAT, which is quite a number here. > superserver reads that list on startup and keeps a single bit vect

RE: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck

2011-08-19 Thread Bob Murdoch
Set, > -Original Message- > From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Svein Erling Tysvær > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:18 AM > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Oldest tr

RE: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck - current state of replication?

2011-08-19 Thread Bob Murdoch
Thomas, > -Original Message- > From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Steinmaurer > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:35 PM > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transact

Re: [firebird-support] Oldest transaction stuck - current state of replication?

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
>> -Original Message- >> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas > Steinmaurer >> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:35 PM >> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com >> Subject: Re: [firebi