Hi.

With some databases Firebird (but also Interbase), the very
first "begin transaction" after a system boot takes plenty of time
(even 2 minutes or more, depending on the database).
During this phase, Firebird is freezed, and *any* other
connection/operation is snozed, until the 2 minutes (or more) have
passed. In the meanwhyle the Hard disk of the server running
Firebird is very very busy.
The databases causing this have no particular structure (some even
have no blob fields), and the size is rather small : 20 or 30 Mb.
The freeze happens on any machine running Firebird
(Win9x,Win2K,WinXP) even with 1Gb Ram.
After the freeze, everything works fine and fast.

After all connections to the DB that had caused the freeze are
closed, other incoming connections+transactions on that DB happen
fast as they should, except some rare cases where the freeze happens
again (perhaps after a long time after the last connection to that
DB was closed)

I understand this can be an acceptable issue (just wait these 2
minutes, go take a coffee..) but i have some cases where it's not.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,

Marcus.