Thank you David,
This is the type of responce we needed.
The problem with the task we are doing is that it is HUGE.
It takes lots of minute steps that each take microseconds,
but they add up to hours/days and they need to be done
in sequential order.

Regards,

Robert.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, David Johnson
<d_johnson@c...> wrote:

> I think we need more info to provide meaningful feedback.
>
> If the bottleneck is really at the hardware level, then you want to

go

> to at least a 64 bit Opteron box with gigabit SAN connectivity and

as

> many CPU's as you can profitably use.
>
> If your process is queueable and you are running a multi-CPU box

then

> running the receiving process on a separate thread from the write
> process will allow the queue to buffer spike loads and maximize
> throughput
>
> What throughput are you experiencing? What hardware do you currently
> have?
>