Hi Firebird devs/users,
I've successfully set up firebird with apache+php on a linux box.
My problem is the slow speed of opening db-connections (around
500ms). I found that php has a possibility to have persistent
connections to FB with ibase_pconnect(). But the idle connections
are closed after a couple of hours.

Is there a way to leave idle persistent connections open for a
longer period or is it a problem of PHP implementation. Though, I
could use an ugly solution by creating a script that regularly
queries the database and keeps the connections alive.

Or are there other useful tips when using FB as a web backend? Any
documentation on that?
And are there some benchmarks comparing speed of firebird to other
(opensource) databases.

Keep up the good work and thanks,
Jaak