FB has VERY poor performance with EXT4 http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=6421
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote: > > trskopo wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > >> > > >> >So the question should perhaps be ... what are you using with Firebird? > >> > > > I am using firebird in client-server environment for accounting application > > and mostly only in a LAN. > > > > About file system, (if I didn't mistaken) someone here mentions not to use > > specific file system, because it will decrease firebird's performance. > > To be honest I'd like a definitive answer here. > > Since I'm storing a large tree of folders with other content on the same disk > it's a different case to dedicating a single disk to store just the database. > All of my machines are idle for a large part of the day. Just need speed to > get > a fast response when several enquiries come in at once, so I've not had to > worry. If I start getting to a point where database access is a problem I'd > probably simply move the database to it's own Linux box and run the database > on > it's own disk, at which point I'll be asking the same question :) > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk >
