Lester,

Thanks. Well, hmmmm.. I forgot that the box also has a Promise Raid
controller, which is of course supported under WinNT/2K, but I need
to search for Linux drivers. I may have to do without the Raid on
Linux and just schedule my gBak to run daily and back up to second
hard disk. So SUSE 7.3 will be the choice for now.

Thanks.


- Lou

--- In ib-support@y..., lester@l... wrote:
> > I am building a new Firebird server and am rethinking my plan to
load
> > Linux as my network admins prefer Win NT/2K. I am avoiding XP for
> > the moment until the .gdb problem is fixed. I would appreciate
any
> > feedback insight etc... on my options here. I feel that Linux is
the
> > best choice for uptime and performance, but I have not seen any
> > benchmarks to verify this.
>
> Given the Forced Write problem in Windows, the Linux machin
> almost has to be quicker, but I have SUSE7.3 running on an
> older AMD machine ( K6-2-233 <g> ), and it's responce is as
> fast as my 700Mhz Athlon runing W2k. Firebird only slows
> down when I hit it with a lonnng query, in which case the
> WIndows machine comes back first, but only by 10% or so.
>