No other thoughts anyone, I've been forced to X-post to the
Borland-Interbase group :-(

JAC.

""Martijn Tonies"" <m.tonies@...> wrote in message
news:005601c2bccb$2f3f5d60$0a02a8c0@seal...

> Hi,
>
> > I have a client that is having problems with a new server, they are
> trying
> > to improve performance on a system temporarily (their actual aim is to
> eval
> > FB 1 / IB 7). Their old server is dual proc 800 MHZ PIII with 1GB RAM

OS

> /
> > swap and temp on mirrored, data on 5 disk raid. New server is 2.2Ghz

PIII

> > with 2GB RAM and same disk config (except disks spin 2x old disk speed.
> >
> > The new server starts off being a lot quicker, but performance degrades

as

> > load increases during the day. They are doing all kinds of

observational

> > testing and have noticed that under heavy load the IB process' No of
> threads
> > jumps between 20 -> 240.
>
> What are the transaction statistics on this? Is there a large gap between
> these?
>
>
>