ah, ok...mazbe the application wasnÇt even faster and it was just a
kind of a placebo cause in another forum some guy told me i should run
fb as an application if i wanted it to be faster...

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 10:29 AM 20/05/2006, you wrote:
> >hello
> >i was wondering the other day whats exactly that difference between fb
> >as a service an fb as an application
>
> Programmatically, no difference at all. It is the same executable.
> The difference is in who/what is controlling the execution of the
> program. When run as a service, the program is always under the
> control of a predefined user. By default, this is the localsystem
> user, an internal Windows user that has great powers (actually, more
> powers than are needed; it's recommended to change this, but that's
> a different topic...) When run as an application, the program is run
> in the application space of the Windows user that executes it.
>
>
> >i noticed that searches are a little bit faster when running as an
> >application and from what the the quick start guide says about it i
> >guess it has something to do with the difference between winxp and
> >older versions of it but i don't really get it...
>
> I wouldn't struggle to do so. There is no architectural reason why
> differences in execution speed would exist, since the same code
> executes in either case. Differences would be a factor of the state
> of the database.
>
> >can fb as an application also act as a remote service or is that an
exclusive
> >feature of the service?
>
> Yes, of course. On Win98 and WinME it's not possible to run the
> Firebird server as a service but you can still connect to the
> Firebird server application from remote clients via TCP/IP if it is
> installed. The embedded server model must, by its nature, run as an
> application regardless of platform and accept only a local client.
>
> So, apart from these factors, there is no sense in running either the
> superserver or the Classic "parent" as applications. Servers provide
> services. The whole "service host" subsystem on Windows server
> platforms is designed for providing services.
>
> >whats the difference all about...
>
> When Firebird superserver runs as an application but is acting as a
> server, you need to have the Guardian application running. It
> monitors the server and restarts it if it shuts down abnormally.
>
> You don't need the Guardian if the superserver is running as a
> service, because you can set the service to be restarted by the
> services subsystem if it ends abnormally. Indeed you *should* do
> that for Firebird Classic: set it to run as a service, disable the
> Guardian and set the service to restart the executable if
> required. That way you will ensure that only the parent
> fb_inet_server.exe process gets restarted and not the child processes
> (which, if aborted, should be left to time out, rather than risk
> being restarted and getting left behind as ghost connections.)
>
> ./heLen
>