Hi Nigel,

Took me a while to get what you were asking, but that happens on
Mondays.

Apart from preventing other users from connecting, I have not found any
other drawbacks to local connections. Certainly I would expect some
overhead from a TCP connection, possibly even noticable to the user,
but I have never seen a 10X slowdown for a TCP connection to localhost,
maybe something else is at play?

Also make sure (if FB doesn't already enforce it) that the drive that
the fdb is located on is under direct control of the server that is
running it. (ie No hosting fdbs on shares etc)

Adam