--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > I have always thought that a database server should be disk-bound
> > rather than cpu-bound, yet some of the posts I see in this thread seem
> > to contradict this.
> >
> > Ciao
> > --
> > Nando Dessena
>
> I second this - disk-bound is the aim in my designs, but it's nice

when the

> CPU has some grunt for the tough jobs too.
> Alan

It seems to be highly CPU-bound in my case.

maurice