Hello,

> It seems FB doesn't allocate all the available RAM (in this case 8GB). I
> would expect FB to use all the available RAM, however FB's memory usage
> doesn't grow beyond approx 1GB, even after the processes accessing the
> DB have run for a while (and gone thru most of the records).

AFAIK in case of windows (eg. 2k, xp) the single process can use up to
2GB (the address of 32 bits makes possible to address 4GB but OS use a
half of address space for its internals).
Regards.,
...michal