Michael Vilhelmsen wrote:

>
> hi Again
>
> I really find it strange....
>
> Last night I was here in the house, making a Restore on our server
> using Gbak from the command line.
>
> It runs very fast until it reaches a point where it starts creating
> index etc.
>
> Here it cunsumes ALL available RAM and the speed drops dramatically !
>
> Last night i took me almost 120 minuttes to restore.
>
> This morning I try the exact same on my labtop.
> I did the same restore from the same backup file.
> It took 23 minuttes on my labtop. And the amount of available memory
> was never below 250 Mb.
>
> I really annoys me, that it is so slow doing a restore.
> As I see it, the conditions are the same, except that the server
> should be much faster than my labtop when doing a restore.
>
>
> Just for the fun of it, I tried to do the same restore on a new server
> we have just installed here. This server runs Windows 2003 on a
> ordinary IDE drive. Also here it consumed all available memory.
>
>
> Is this just something that happens to me ?
> If it is, I must be doing something wrong !
>
>
>
>
>
> SERVER
> Intel Xeon 3 Ghz CPU
> A harddrive raid 5 system (SCSI)
> 1 Gb of RAM
> Windows 2000 SP4
> Firebird 1.5.0 running as server
> No user connected (besides me)
> No programs running (besides AV software, which doesn't scan any FB
> files or FB Backup files)
>
> LABTOP
> Centrino 1,5 Ghz
> 1 IDE harddrive (5400 rpm)
> 1 Gb of RAM
> Windows XP Pro SP2
> Firebird 1.5.0 running as server
> Running AV, Firewall, WLan, and lots of other things.
>

Michael,

I think Win2003 and WinXP are doing a System-Restore on .gdb files.
Do you use .gdb files or are you using a different extension?
Check, if your System-Backup is running.
And what about HT? Did you turn it off?

Uwe