--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>
wrote:

> Currently, the only safe bet for everything to run smoothly in such
> environment is to use some recent 2.4 kernel with SMP support and
> Firebird 2.x Classic. And you you go down that route, make sure you
> don't run ReiserFS (it has some issues which are fixed in kernel 2.6.7
> and above).
>
> If you can't use 2.4 kernel, you might try your luck with Firebird
> SuperServer - there were reports of it working fine on some SMP
> configurations.
>
> --
> Milan Babuskov
> http://www.flamerobin.org
> http://www.guacosoft.com
>

Thank you very much for your response.
I will purchase a single core cpu machine and hope it lasts me until
Firebird 3. 8 months of stability has stopped my client from talking
Microsoft - at least for now. A great relief for me.

I have tested SuperServer in a few configurations and come to the
conclusion that it is not really suitable for more than a few users.
Whilst it provides good performance for one or 2 users it quickly
becomes pretty much unusable as the number of users increases. I
suspect that 8 users would be the practical limit.
In fact I find the performance difference so profound I am unsure as
to why the SuperServer model even exists.

Congratulations on FlameRobin.
It is an excellent piece of software that I use daily.