Hi Mike,

What are your transaction statistics?

I've had this once when, during the application use, the server
piled garbage upon garbage - which all got cleaned when the
application shut down (disconnected).


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Firebird Workbench - the developer tool for Firebird
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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If we change anything, the users object."

> We're seeing the same problem. We can connect instantly, but the
> disconnect takes between 8 and 10 seconds.
>
> I believe there's a confusion between the connect and the disconnect
> problems - I suspect they may be unrelated. The connect issue may be
> caused by system restore on XP, but I don't think the disconnect
> delay has anything to do with that.
>
> Why? Because switching off system restore, changing the file
> extension to FDB (including hacking IBServer.exe to use ISC4.FDB),
> makes NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER.
>
> This surely has to be a major issue for Firebird. I'd like to know
> what is going on during these 8-10 seconds. There's no CPU activity
> and SysInternals shows no file access by ibserver.exe.
>
> Here's hoping one of the Firebird developers can reproduce this and
> at least determine what the problem is.