2011/1/31 Ann W. Harrison <aharrison@...>

> OK, I was going to speculate about memory availability for the large
> sorts involved in creating indexes, but from your description gbak is
> hanging while actually storing data. I have no idea why, and am not
> familiar enough with OS/X to offer useful suggestions for measuring
> process performance.
>
> Anybody else?

Firebird 1.5 , what package ?
(why 1,5 ?)
MacOsX version ?
Filesystem ?
how did you launched gbak ?

but I never saw Firebird slower under MacOsx with gbak
did you tested your disk I/O ?