We develop on Windows (some developer machines, but we do also have
dedicated linux development and test servers) and do production on linux
servers. However, the developer machines are not running any heavy load
and do not have multiple processors... The only big thing that I have
seen (remember we did not load test or anything like that on Windows) is
that the backup/restore process on Windows takes so long compared to
linux (however we are using Interbase, not Firebird). I don't know if
that is a problem for anyone, but our nightly backup window is very
precious to us and any time saved is great.

-steve

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:19 +0000, k_smith_000 wrote:

> Hello,
> According to Firebird Survey 2005 more than 60% percent of deployed FB
> servers were running on Windows. I'm just curious why so many
> developers chosen Windows, while there is free and open source linux
> (which is recommended for DB servers by Oracle and IBM).
>
> Personally I'm using Firebird with Linux, but unfortunately I don't
> have any experience with these database on Linux. The only thing I
> know is that while SuperServer runs smoothly on Windows, it's
> recommended to use Classis architecture on Linux.
>
> Have you carried out any Firebird performance test on linux and
> windows?
> I'm especially interested in test carried on big databases (~4GB) on
> multiprocessor machines.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin Smith
>
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