Someone wrote this:

"Setting the NT server to "Optimized for Network Applications" (under
Network/Server property in NT Control Panel) greatly improve the
performance of IB server. The peak CPU usage by IB which used to
occur a few seconds every minute are gone."

This can help?
Ciao

--- In ib-support@y..., "florixhu" <Thomas.Huber@f...> wrote:
> Hello,
> following problem:
> (W2k server 256MB RAM, TokenRing Lan,
> FB1.0, Client access over BDE (TCP/IP),
> using stored procedures, gdb is ~100MB)
> when calling a complex stored procedure for retrieving data,
> always the first 20-30sec nothing seem to happen on the
> server (looking on taskmanagers process load).
> After this time process load of IB-server goes up as expected
> to 80-90% and returns then result set to client.
>
> After switching to Winnt 4 server we see 'normal' expected
> behaviour => directly after SP is called processor load goes
> up to 80-90%
>
> We tried to connect the client over a mini hub to W2k server
> also over crosscable, but this delay is still there.
>
> Anybody had similar experience and can help with an answer?
>
> TIA
>
> Thomas