I think hyper-threading an super-server does not match.

I have listened than the super server configuration start only one
process to serve all requirements and the classic server start one
process each in one thread and this second run better with hyper-threading.

I think it does not affect the start connection but general performance.

best regards,

Augusto



Yves Glodt wrote:

>Hello,
>
>we are using Firebird since version 1.0 with databases sized between
>10MB and 2.5GB.
>Last week I encountered my first annoyance, and I think it's a known
>problem, but I did not find more information about it :-(
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>Versions:
>OS: XP Pro
>FB: 1.5.2 installed as superserver
>Box: P4 3GHz with hyperthreading enabled
>Filesystem: NTFS on a RAID1 (Mirror)
>Database is about 2.4 GB (single file)
>
>The first (initial) connection our applications make to the server
>(after XP has been restarted) make the applications hang for about 10
>minutes (while they wait for data it seems). They seems to be frozen,
>and nothing happens, except that the server seems to have heavy disk
>operations. CPU load is unimportant (a few %)
>
>After the 10 minutes have passed, suddenly everything works great,
>with good speed and no problems at all.
>
>It's the first time I encounter this problem, all our other DBs did
>and do never take so much time, but they are also smaller... the
>next-smaller is about 800MB.
>
>What is this problem due to?
>
>TIA and best regards,
>Yves
>
>
>p.s. I resend this message as the first one did not seem to get through... :-(
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