At 6/26/2005 07:47 AM (Sunday), diwic2 wrote:

>I know firebird uses some flags when writing to the disk, I think
>write_through is one of them. Could that make the OS think that
>firebird's writes are more important? (Perhaps this is a discussion
>for firebird-devel?)

I don't think Firebird does anything special to elevate the priority of its
I/O.

Are you using IDE drives? They seem to be a choke point on many systems.
historically SCSI does much better on servers.

Sounds like this is a question for a Windows support forum, or perhaps a
hardware forum.