What surprise!!! I think it works good on FB 1.5 with force write on.

Yes, if I put forced writes OFF It works very good again. It flies.

But, forced writes off is dangerous, isn't it?.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr@...> wrote:
>
> 15.03.2012 21:51, jsbriantes wrote:
> >
> > As test says: firebird 2.5 on linux is very slow, and slower than 1.5.6.
> >
> > I can't belive it. Perhaps I have something wrong in my configuration? I
> > don't change firebird.conf parameters.
> >
> > Where could be the problem?
>
> Are Forced Writes turned ON or OFF for the v2.5 database? If it's ON,
> this explains the difference.
>
> v1.5 had FW=ON not working properly, so it was actually OFF. And IIRC
> the default setting was OFF as well. See here:
> http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1476
>
> v2.5 has FW=ON by default and it's obviously slower than FW=OFF, no
> surprises here.
>
>
> Dmitry
>