The problem was that the SuSE 10 install didn't automatically turn on
DMA access for the drive. We checked it at the suggestion of another
user and that fixed it.
For the file system, we're probably going to use XFS, mostly because
it's tuned more towards large files, and ReiserFS is tuned to many small
ones.

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Salim Naufal
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 3:53 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Linux file system effect on Firebird

Hi Rick,

We are using Firebird C/S on Suse 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 in conjunction with
the Reiserfs. We first encountered slowness during the initial
connection server when connecting from Windows XP clients. You can turn
off the Windows XP firewall or add the IP addresses to the /etc/hosts
file on linux.
As far as the performance is concerned. There was no slowdown at all as
a result of the Reiserfs.

Hope that helps

Salim


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Debay" <rdebay@...>
wrote:

>
> > There's too little info in your email to elaborate further
>
> Yah, I know. The field is wide open, and our resources are limited.
> So I'm hoping that the group knowledge would give us a starting point,

> rather than us just picking any variable (file system? Kernel? NPTL?)
> and modifying it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jan Bakuwel
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:07 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Linux file system effect on Firebird
>
> Rick Debay wrote:
> > We're moving off of RedHat 8 on ext3 on to Suse 10. On the new
> > system
>
> > we're experiencing poor response in terminal sessions and at the
> > keyboard when restoring a database. Our first guess is that it's
> > the Reiser file system. Before we start building another test box,
> > I'd like to hear anyone's experiences with the Reiser FS or Suse
> > when running Firebird.
> >
> > Thanks, Rick DeBay
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> I've had only good experiences (none of what you're describing) with
> ReiserFS. There's too little info in your email to elaborate further
> on what may be the cause of the poor response you're experiencing.
>
> cheers,
> Jan