kelpiedave wrote:

> It is a good spec IBM x3550, RAID 1 with 12 GB RAM.

First you should isolate whether it is a problem with Firebird or the
operating system. What is the overall system performance. For example,
if you try to copy a big file, what speed in MB/s do you observer?

> it seems there is a significant pause, 3 -4 seconds.

See point 4. on this page:

http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq52

Regards,


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Milan Babuskov

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