2011/5/14 Werner F. Bruhin <werner.bruhin@...>

> Is there really nothing one can do?

can you test with this two bench :

aibench and iibench that you can find here :

http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/qa/trunk/benchmark/

create an empty database
by defaut it will use localhost:test as connection string

then launch iibench

for example :

python iibench.py --db_password=masterke --max_rows=500000
--rows_per_report=10000
--setup --max_table_rows=20000 --with_max_table_rows

it will do inserts, selects and deletes

I'm not sure that it's running well under Windows, but if not you can
run the bench from Linux against your Firebird under your Windows VM