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> Win2003 may perform IO very badly and require tuning.
> Unfortunatelly, I can't remember details.
>

Hi,

I really would be interested what tuning is required because we
suffer the same problem (low performance).

We tried everything to no avail, we use FB 1.5.3, i even installed
the classic version which suffers the same poor performance aswell.
- All DBs have FDB extension
- ShadowCopies disabled
- CPU affinity

As a test I create a DB from a script on 2 machines and a Win2000 900
Mhz outperforms a Win2003 2.4 Ghz. When I compare the CPU usage on
both machines during the create the Win 2003 machine always gets
stuck on 1-2% while the Win2000 machine uses 20-25%.

Greetings,
Filip Moons