At 01:40 AM 6/02/2007, you wrote:

>I didn't see a response to my earlier question, so I'll put the question
>a bit different.
>
>Does one have to set the "CpuAffinityMask" setting in firebird.conf for
>a Pentium D or other multi core CPU's when using FB 2.0 Embedded?

It's set at CPU 0 (value 1) by default. Leave it as is unless you
want the single-CPU affinity to be to a different one.

>Are there other settings I need to consider with embedded and multi core
>CPU's?
>
>I could not find this in the ReleaseNotes and the comment in
>firebird.conf talks about SuperServer but not explicitly embedded, so I
>am confused.

Embedded is just a single SuperServer instance. The process is still
going to run multiple threads inside for GC and other stuff, as the
full Superserver does. Don't think of embedded as a "different"
engine. It's just a model of Supersever for a specific type of deployment.

./hb