--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Mario Blataric
<blataric@n...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've seen many posts on this issue, but no sollution so far.
>
> Until now, we've been using FB 1.5.2 Classic on WinXP and Pentium4
> machine. It was working fine, but we had hardware problems and decided
> to switch to new server.
> We got dual 3Ghz Xeons on Intel motherboard, 1Gb RAM and 2 SCSI discs in
> RAID (mirror) and installed Windows 2003 on it.
>
> Well, all FB based applications runs significantly slower. Shadowing and
> sharing is disabled, HyperThreading also.
>
> Is this Win2003 and Firebird 1.5 issue? Would it be best to switch to
> Windows2000 or this can this slow-down be solved?
> We can't go to linux since we have many UDF's that should be rewritten
> and we're kinda short on time.
>
> Mario Blataric

Hi Mario,
I also have FB on W2003 Server and it runs ok on 800MHz proc.
I can only suggest the usual suspects,
Fdb not Gdb
Virus checker on every access
Processor affinity

Mick