Hi,

> Does anyone have any specific details as to what problems are in IB
> 6.0.1.0 and earlier?

Well, I'm sorry to say - but 6.0.1.0 isn't exactly a release ready
version. It was a public BETA of IB 6.0 ... At least update to 6.0.1.6

> My firm has approximately 200 clients deployed on IB 6.0.1.0 and we
> are seeing serious performance degradation. This condition leads to

Have a look at the transaction statistics - keeping long running
transactions open usually is the 'cause of this. Use "gfix" to
check on your databases.

> a complete loss of response from the IB server and forces the users
> to reboot the machine (which often causes DB corruption). This is
> becoming a major issue with several clients and is starting to
> reflect poorly on us. However, we do not yet have any specific
> technical info on the causes/reasons for this situtation to occur
> and our support group wants to be reassured that these failure modes
> are not present in any newer releases that we might deploy (the cost
> of upgrading the DB on 200 + clients is not trivial).
>
> Thanks much in advance for any info you can provide.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Upscene Productions
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