2011/2/1 Philippe Makowski <makowski@...>:

> 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 ?

sorry, I didn't saw the thread
3) in a OS X tiger, I have FirebirdSS-1.5.6-5026-i386.pkg.zip
installed, and I did following
gbak -c -v data.fbk data.fdb, it takes very very long time, in fact it
did not finish after several hours.

so did you tested your disk I/O ?
are the two box similar (CPU, disk, mem) ?
did you tried using services ?
what is running on this MacOsx box ?