> -----Original Message-----
> We are using only one connection. After completion of any
> operation related to firebird, we dispose the object, but
> still there is no effect to the Memory occupied by firebird
> (which should be reduced).And thus it causes our application
> to slow down.

3rd time lucky :-)

As well as disposing of objects are you committing/rolling back transactions
and explicitly closing the database connection and any fbdatareader objects?

If you don't then you will experience the behaviour you are describing.

Rgds

Si Carter
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