Martijn;



Thanks for your reply.



We have heard that 6.0.1.0 is a BETA from many people. Unfortunately,
this was not learned until after deployment to 200+ clients over the
last 2 years.



I have read that the 6.0.1.6 and 6.0.2.0 releases were built by Mers,
but that no one had a catalogue of the changes that went into either of
these builds. I was hoping that someone would step up and disprove that
claim. I would like to know something specific about what changed
between 6.0.1.0 and 6.0.1.6, and, in particular, what caused this
performance degradation issue. I REALLY need to know that this problem
has been fixed. Asking the expert community seemed like the prudent
(and inexpensive) thing to do. We will certainly test the more recent
versions before deploying them to our entire user base, however, having
the specific answer to this question would calm the fears of our
executives who are VERY concerned about both InterBase (due to its
failures) and about FireBird (due to the inability to answer these
questions).



Again, I humbly thank you for your efforts to assist us.



Regards,



Hugh J Borst

hborst@...





-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:m.tonies@...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:10 AM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] IB 6.0.1.0 Problems...



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
http://www.upscene.com

See you at the First European Firebird Conference in May in Fulda,
Germany
http://www.firebird-conference.com





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