>
> > Its main purpose is to run a Firebird SS 2.1 64 bit.
>
> I'd go witn FB Classic since you have a SMP box. My experience with

Xeon

> Quad/200 concurrent connections (but on a Windows Server) is that

Classic

> performs *a lot* better than SS.

This is a future change.
I have been told I should do this, but this requieres some
reprogramming in our program, which we havn't done yet...

>
>
> > Should I change anything in the conf. file away from standard ?
>
> I use Fb 1.5 and AFAIR the only change I did to the default FB conf was
> raise some lock manager settings (LockMemSize, LockHashSlots).

AFAIK, Fb 2.1

> already has this default settings raised though.

MIv