--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Jason Dodson <jasond@b...> wrote:

> Ok man... I dunno if you are aware of it or not, but what you see in
> "top" is pretty irrelevant. On my system, I could have.... say...
> SETI@HOME running. The thing takes 100% cpu... EXCEPT when something
> else is running... then it takes what is left. It is executed on a
> different priority level, and you can certainly jam firebird into sucha
> mechanism, probably with the "nice" command.
>
> Firebird, like EVERY OTHER APPLICATION uses as much CPU as it needs, and
> the Operating System divides up the processing time. The reason
> something like a python script would only take 1.5% CPU vs. 100% is a
> lot of waiting inbetween stuffs.
>
> Jason
>

On its own, I can understand that Fb may want to use as much CPU as it
has. However, in the light of relatively modest usage by mysql or
postgres (both averaging CPU load at 1.5-5% everyday), the argument
does not hold. Furthermore, shouldn't FB be more I/O intensive than
CPU intensive?

cheers
maurice