At 03:44 AM 9/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>I moved to a new computer this weekend, upgrading from Windows 2000
>to Windows XP Professional. Now when I free an TIB_Connection
>object in my server code, it is taking an unusually long time to
>disconnect from the Firebird database (like 10 seconds). I am
>running version "WI-V6.2.794 Firebird 1.0".
>
>I traced through the IBObjects code, and it is specifically the call
>to isc_detach_database in TIB_Connection.API_Disconnect that is
>taking forever.
>
>My new computer does have Hyperthreading enabled, so I tried setting
>CPU_AFFINITY to 1 in the ibconfig file, but that did not fix
>things. My next step is to try disabling Hyperthreading totally
>and/or try the latest version of IBObjects (I am using 4.2Gc).

You DO have to disable hyperthreading at BIOS level for Firebird.

Helen