Subject Re: [firebird-support] Very very very slow FB 2.5.2 64bit performance on Windows 2008 R2
Author Michael Weissenbacher
Hi!
> CristalDiskMark:
>
> Seq 468 MB/s Read 161 MB/s Write (Ten times faster than a notebook
> vostro 1510 intel core 2 duo 1.8ghz)
>
Sequential Disk performance is completely irrelevant to a database
workload which is 99% random I/O. You need to check the random disk
performance. Make sure your BBWC / FBWC is in good state and you've
chosen a small stripe size on the RAID set where the database resides.

hth,
Michael