Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: How to find out buffer size.
Author Alexandre Benson Smith
Anderson Farias wrote:
>> Reduce de Cache Size to something between 8000-10000.
>> There is a known limitation on the FB 1.X dirty page algorithm
>> that tends to slow down with Cache Size greater than 10k.
>>
>
> AFAIK even on FB 1.0 this 'bug' was never really confirmed. And I have
> heard reports of no problem at all on fb 1.5 (can anyone comfirm?!)
>

I won't call it a bug, but a limitation on the algorithm that cause
slowness if a big (> 10k) pages on cache is used. AFAIK 1.0 and 1.5 has
the same algorithm to handle the page cache. FB 2.0 has changed it.

> Regards,
> Anderson
>

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
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