Just a couple of quick questions to assist someone who might have time to help you (not me..)

At 09:35 AM 6/07/2011, unordained wrote:

>Windows Server 2008 SP2 (which has a fix for the disk-cache problem Carlos
>pointed out) with FB 2.1.4 Classic, with default settings (75 page cache * 16kb
>page size, 8mb sort temp space).

and

>It's Win2kSP2, so
>it's likely not the disk cache. It's FB 2.1.4, so it's not just 2.5.x.

Contradictory? Question, which OS and, if actually Server 2008, is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

Also contradictory is the Subj, viz., "FBserver.exe takes 2 or even 4 Gb of memory". If you are running FbServer.exe then you are running Superserver, not Classic.

The other quick question is whether you are (inadvisedly) using the Guardian with Classic. (Guardian OK with fbserver.exe, not OK with fb_inet_server.exe, which is Classic.)

./hb