Paul,

Thanks. That is what I thought. I will give FreeBSD a try on test
machine to see what happens. In the end, I will go with the easier
of the two to configure. I have kept IB4-Linux this long as it was a
snap to get up and running. I am upgrading machine mainly to avoid
the runaway processes (log file fills up) that occur when a user
disconnects abnormally.

- Lou

--- In ib-support@y..., Paul Reeves <paul@f...> wrote:
> Lou Feliz wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I need to migrate an IB 4 server on Linux to Firebird 1. I
building
> > a new machine to and was considering trying FreeBSD. Is this a
good
> > idea or should I just load RedHat 7.x and move on?
>
> This question is almost as bad as asking 'Which flavour of Linux is
> best'. The more prudent among us are trying to stay out of
religious
> wars. However, it would probably improve the monthly stats for the
list
> server/newsgroup.
>
> > Since, I am here
> > is there any idea onwhen Firbeird will support multiple CPU's in
> > Super Server mode?
> >
>
> I'm not 100% sure that Firebird under Linux doesn't already run
under
> multiple CPUs. (Sorry for the double negative in that sentence).
While
> running top recently (very unreliable) it certainly looked as if I
had
> ibserver processes running on both processors simultaneously. Of
course
> at the time I wasn't measuring performance - it was the last thing
on my
> mind in fact - but according to top both processors were in use
> simultaneously.
>
> This shouldn't be taken as anything more than hearsay, though.
However,
> all the issues with Firebird and usage of multiple processors
usually
> refer to the Win32 platform.
>
>
> Paul
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>
> Paul Reeves
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