At 06:53 AM 1/06/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Does anyone know if Firebird will work OK (or fantastically) on a
>dual Xeon processor machine?

On Linux: yes
On Windoze, with Classic server: yes
On Windoze, with Superserver: purportedly not; though I was recently in
contact with a gentleman in Canberra who soak-tested a whole raft of chip
and BIOS combinations and came up with one that had SS 1.4 being
distributed around a 4-processor setup with a consistent 17% CPU usage
across all four processors, along with expected improvement in performance
of CPU-intensive jobs.

I've suggested he might like to put his results into a report that would be
of high interest to a lot of folk.

>I have heard rumors it won't however would like to confirm it is not
>a hang over from the Interbase days...

Well, indeed, it is a hangover from the Interbase days...nothing has been
done to Firebird SS on Windows, up to and including 1.5, to advance the
cause of SMP support. However, over the four years since IB 6, BIOS
manufacturers are doing a better job, so I'm told.

/heLen