Hi

Check his anti virus settings, perhaps it is canning the FB DB every
time a change is made. Does the database end with .gdb ? If so change it.

Cheers
Rob

On 9/02/2010 10:28 a.m., Chuck Belanger wrote:
> Hello, I've already asked this on the FireBird forum and got no replies:
>
> I'm using IBO and Firebird (2.1), embedded, in a desktop application.
>
> Recently, a user started really complaining that his program was very
> slow (about 10x slower than other users). After coaxing him to try
> running the program in Safemode in Vista, he noticed a MUCH better
> response (i.e. in the ballpark of other users). He then methodically
> looked at all his startup programs and processes and found a BlueTooth
> program to be the culprit. He eliminated loading that, rebooted but then
> found that there are other programs that are still slowing FB WAY down
> (a recent grid which takes about 5 second to load, took him a minute to
> load). He stopped looking but did not stop complaining about his "slow
> program." : )
>
> Is there anyone who can help me to know what type of programs my users
> should not be running with the DB intensive program that I distribute?
> Are there specific issues here? Any general recommendations that I can
> make to my users?
>
> Admittedly this user is one of those types that load up about 20 (and
> I'm not exaggerating!) programs and expect them all to run just fine. He
> does have plenty of RAM (I think he said 6Gb). He's running 32 bit Vista
> on a laptop. Our support person does say that out of about 100 users
> there are 2 others with similar problems, but they do not run a lot of
> programs in the background.
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Chuck Belanger.
>
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