Hi Jason,

> Sorry you got lumbered with the "everything must be free otherwise you are
> the anti-Christ" flame, very tolerant of you, I think I would have been

less

> humane.

Ah well - worse things happen at sea... I tried doing my best to help
the guy.

But, anymore news yet?

--
Martijn

> The live server is running BDE apps and replication, so the TX diffs can

get

> pretty high, but the test servers that exhibit the same are run from fresh
> and exhibit the performance differences after just a few minutes, so I'm
> guessing not. As I said, I haven't been on site, so I haven't been able

to

> have a very good look, hoping to do that on Friday.
>
> I was hoping to pick up a couple of gems like:
> A new thread is spawned when a client is waiting for a query to be

executed

> or when the server is waiting to send results back. Because of the home
> grown threading in 5.6 I am assuming that threads are implemented on the
> periphery, e.g. server side remote connection handler, rather than low

level

> VIO / Execution / Planning etc.
>
> They have been running on the old server for years, running hot mind as

the

> load is pretty heavy and it is BDE.
>
> I'll do some more digging on Friday, but any help on why, how and when
> threads are created / destroyed in IB would be of help.
>
> Cheers,