Subject Re: [firebird-support] Performance Degredation on Dual Processor SBS 2003?
Author Daniel Rail
Hi,

At November 18, 2005, 10:08 AM, carstoneseating wrote:

> I am thinking of adding a second Xeon processor to my server running
> Microsoft Small Business Server 2003. However, I have read "somewhere"
> that Firebird degrades in performance with dual processors. Is this
> indeed an issue? I am using DBA Manufacturing ERP package with the
> Firebird Database.

Firebird Superserver will degrade in performance if you don't set the
CPU affinity to a single processor in the Firebird.conf configuration
file. If you want Firebird to use both processors, then you'll need
to use the Classic Server version.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Developer
ACCRA Consultants Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)