> Can we convince the powers that be to delegate GC to its own thread? or
> does Firebird GC depend on "owning" the system?

I believe the tests are being run on classic, so he is seeing co-op garabage
collection rather than the work being done in a GC thread...
Remember Classic doesn't do threads.

I say this because Toon, just built a 1.5.3 AIX server for Classic...
So it would be interesting to know which of the Firebird Server Architectures
are being compared to the other databases.

Paul