Andrew,

The closeAll kills Squeak as well. I deleted everything in the  
'Users' directory and got the same error. Then deleted the '.usr'  
file, allowed it to be recreated, and then received a 'Bad header'  
error. I haven't been making changes to the database, so I copied an  
archived version and was allowed access to the data, so it isn't a  
critical situation anymore!

I'd love to see your ODBSupport package. Let me know if you put it up  
somewhere.

Thanks, Brian.

On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Andrew Catton wrote:

> I'm not sure what your setup is doing to get into this state (some  
> cleanup must not be happening), but I can hazily remember that to  
> get out of it you'll want to get rid of the excess .usr files on  
> disk (and probably do 'OmniBase closeAll').
>
> When using ODB, we've generally used a connection pool approach to  
> managing clients.. if it's useful we could throw our ODBSupport  
> package over the wall (including ODBSPool).
>
> Andrew
>
> On 11/2/05, Brian Murphy-Dye <brian.murphydye at mac.com> wrote: I'm  
> getting an 'ODBError: Maximum number of clients reached'. There
> aren't any instances of ODBTransaction, but there are 160 open
> instances of OmniBase. I don't seem to have anything holding onto
> these, but 'Smalltalk garbageCollect' doesn't get rid of them, and
> '(OmniBase allInstances select: [:ea | ea isOpened]) first close'
> crashes Squeak immediately :(
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated :o)
>
> Brian.
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