Robert, > The weird thing is that while the system is slow and the HDD shows at around > 100% use in resource monitor, the actually data throughput is about 1 ro 5MB a > sec. This is can be much higher when the system runs normally. This made me > think the HDD might be faulty but all indications are that its not (according > to a > hardware technician) and of course the problem fixes itself when stopping > Firebird. > > System is > i7 quad core (8 cores in Windows) > 10 GB Ram > Windows 7 64bit > 16GB free hdd space > > Firebird 2.5.2 64bit > DB size is 2.7 GB
Have you check the database sweep setting of the database? If the engine is running a sweep, the task manager/resource manager would show that usage profile. Sean
