On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:37:09 +0100, Nick Upson <nu@...> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I am running classic firebird 2.1, but I don't think its GC as I ran

both a

> sweep and a backup and still got the same, longer, time

It can be a different number of issues: less fragmentation, no (or
shorter) record version chains, large difference between OIT and the
current transaction number in the database before backup causing continuous
sweeps or something like that.

Mark