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

> I think you are running into one of my most lamented problems with

firebird... if there is an aggressive connection (IE backup, or a
really CPU/IO

> intensive query), it absolutely refuses to play nice with the other

connections. My guess is there is no (or not very good) scheduler in
Firebird.

Unfortunately, this is what I personally suspected, but I'm not
prepared to go out on a limb and say it :) What sort of workarounds
do you use in such cases? Or are there none?