On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:53:28 +0800
Magicloud Wang <magicloud.magiclouds@...> wrote:

> Dear,
> The main difference I got is that classic does not have a tcp
> port listened, right? I just tried classic the first time this
> morning, isql can connect to the database, while netstat reported no
> port related to firebird.

No, there's really no difference, from the user/client point of view,
between classic and superserver. There is instead a big difference in
how the *server* works: in the first case (classic), there's a single
process per connection, [on Unixes] launched by inetd [or xinetd]: you
won't find any firebird process running, when there are no connection
to any DB on that machine. In the superserver case instead there's a
single multithreaded FB process always running waiting/serving any
request to the DB.

To be of further help, some more details are needed, such as hosting
operating system and Firebird version.

hth,
ciao, lele.
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