Maybe Windows gets confused? A known issue (with databases -
documented somewhere in the old Interbase docs) is that Windows tries
load balancing. So what happens is that the DB usage (and hence CPU
usage) goes up. Windows notices, and tries to swap processors to
balance the load. Because of the nature of db operations, the load on
the new processor goes up. So windows notices. And swaps processors
to balance the load .....

and so on and so forth. :)

(I am sure others can explain it much better than I can)

The solution (which we have done on all our installations - about 800
of them) is to disable hyperthreading. I wonder if maybe the same
issue could be happening with dual core processors?

HTH

Tim

At 07:47 07/06/2006, you wrote:

>I am not sure, but I think I have a similar problem.
>
>A customer runs FB SS on a Windows 2003 Dual Core Server.
>Sometimes (a few days after booting the server) FB slows down
>dramatically. Processor usage goes up to 50%.
>A restart of the FB service doesn't help. I have to restart the
>Windows 2003 server, to solve the problem. This is very awkward,
>because the customer works in 3 shifts and there is allways anyone
>connected to the database.
>
>What could be the reason for this problem? Are there any knowen issues
>on this?
>What could I try to solve this problem?
>
>Kind regards
>Helmut
>
>

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