Hi,

At March 7, 2006, 3:40 AM, Carsten Schäfer wrote:

> Hi,
> we have customer that sees slowdowns with Firebird on a multiprocessor
> cpu (large selects are up to 4-times slower than on single cpu machine).
> I know this item was often discussed on this newsgroup.
> Is there a document/FAQ-Item that describes the possible problems and
> solutions with Firebird on a mulitprocessor system ?

Use Classic on SMP systems, if you want to use more than one CPU. Or,
set the CPU affinity for Superserver, to use only one CPU on the SMP
system. Superserver will only be SMP compliant in FB 3(don't ask for
release date, because FB 2.0 still needs to be released).

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Developer
ACCRA Consultants Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)