> You are using local connection: what is the operating system that you are
> using? What I suspect is that the Operating System is doing something on the
> background (flushing the data into the hard disk) with a very high priority
> that do not allow IB to 'get back to his job' and reply to your application
> 'ok, disconected'.
>

I use W2K
But I have ForcedWrites=on, so IB should write all changes directly to the hard
disk. And because the commit takes up to 10 seconds, so I think, that writing
the data to the disk happens exactly at this time.

Guido