Hopefully Dmitry will come up with some answers. He seems to be the man that knows. I’m sure he was one of the IBSurgeon guys at the recent Prague seminar on performance tuning etc.

In our case we have two near identical boxes running the same OS and firebird config, one does a bit more than the other but then that box has the two main databases on a Kingston 200GB SSD which I would expect it to be able to handle it with ease but as it is it is worse than a regular HDD.