Inserting BLOBS (and rootdbs)

Hello All, We have come across a situation where the rootdbs is filling up with TBLSPACE TBLSPACE entries when inserting BLOBS into a table via a stored procedure on a remote system. Do Blobs flow through the rootdbs (on there way to the blobspace maybe)? Is there a way to have them go to another working space? I have read all that I can find on blobs and nowhere have I found a link between Blob insertion and rootdbs. Here are the details: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC3XD Solaris 2.6 From onstat -d dbspace size free bpages rootdbs 50000 8609 tempdbs 314000 313847 blobdbs8_64 {8 chunks} 1000000 ~12186 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 1000000 ~31246 31250 The inserting application is on a remote system using JDBC to call a stored procedure "image_ins". "image_ins" has a parameter REFERENCES BYTE that then gets inserted into a table "image" which has a BLOB column stored in blobdbs8_64. create table "informix".image ( ...snipped.... blob byte in blobdbs8_64, ...snipped... ); CREATE DBA PROCEDURE image_ins ( ....snipped... , pass_blob REFERENCES BYTE ....snipped... ) ....snipped... INSERT INTO image ( ...snipped... , blob ,,,snipped... ) VALUES ( ...snipped... , pass_blob ...snipped... ) END PROCEDURE; Each blob is ~200KB and the TBLSPACE TBLSPACE entries on rootdbs (from the end of the rootdbs listing of oncheck -pe) look like: TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 15609 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 19579 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 21301 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 24951 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 28601 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 32251 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 35901 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 39551 50 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 43201 50 FREE 43827 3024 TBLSPACE TBLSPACE 46851 50 FREE 46901 3099 These TBLSPACE entries are also peculiar because the allocation page numbers do not seem to add up 15609 + 50 <> 19579. Also these TBLSPACE entries are not cleaning themselves up after the process finishes running.