On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:19 +0000, Svein Erling Tysvær wrote:

> Hi Maurice!
>
> Firebird just loves to eat CPU if it can use it! Unfortunately, I
> doubt there exists a way to restrict the Firebird server in this area.

As a side note - even "real databa$e $erver$" are CPU hungry. Just
because you pay lot$ of dollar$ for MS-SQL, Oracle, or DB2 does not mean
your code will use less CPU.

Well over 80% of my employer's CPU on the largest IBM 9000 series
server, expanded to its limit, is used by DB2. We are also, on the same
platform, running CICS terminal based and MVS batch applications.

RDBMS are, by definition, CPU hogs. You trade CPU for ease of
programming, flexibility, and standardization. The tradeoff has, over
time, become a no brainer. VSAM/ISAM remain back ends for most DBMS',
but applications programmers rarely deal with directly them any more.
The cost/value weighting is on the the side of the RDBMS.