David Suárez wrote:

>Hi all,
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>real 1m37.937s
>user 0m0.144s
>sys 0m0.211s
>...
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Discrepancy between real and CPU times are way too high.
I can't believe a configuration change can do it.

What do you get when outputing to /dev/null?
What if you access the database with "localhost:/data/testblob/01.fdb"?
Have you tried using Linux isql to access Windows Firebird
and vice-versa?

>problems also show up inserting blob contents.
>...
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Which tool have you used to insert data?

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>David
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Ivan.