Hi,
I am still investigating this problem and wonder if anyone
else has any suggestions (other than "don't do that").

I have two sprocs that present the headers and contents of
an email message - part of an intranet email app.
They use a number of execute statement calls
and ~20 UDF's to generate a clob values (sub_type 1's).

The problem is that performance starts at ~20 responses
per second and degrades to 3 per sec after 200 sequential
attempts. By reconnecting every 20 attempts I can
keep performance close to 18 reqs/sec but that can
only be a temporary workaround.

My first guess was a client side problem so I eliminated
any (complex) client side code that could be responsible.
I ended up with a for loop and two selects and still had
the degradation.

I have eliminated memory leaks and memory or processor
limitations. The next obvious problem is threading.

A recent NTPL thread discussed problems with Mandrake
so I am planning on ugrading firebird to 1.5.1 and
installing the MDK10 patches.

If this does not solve the problem, any suggestions as
how to investigate the problem server side (above the level
of process traces) would be appreciated.

Jacqui