--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alexey Kovyazin <ak@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
>
> >
> > The problem we are having is that our benchmarking is showing that
> > Window 7 is outperfoming Linux (CentOS).
> >
>
> Actually the real problem that you are going into wrong direction and
> counting wrong things, which are far from the real performance.
> OS gives 5-7% maximum of difference if configured correctly.

I gave another response it's related to filesystem performance on the devshed firebird forum
http://forums.devshed.com/showpost.php?p=2802545