On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:52:58 +0100, André Knappstein <[email protected]> wrote: >> The basic issues is that, by default wants to cache all disk pages >> and with a 64 bit OS it think it has a huge amount of RAM. So once >> all physical RAM has been consumed Windows starts to read/write to >> the disk page file, which causes an excessive amount of disk IO and thus >> slows the system. > > Sorry for sort-of sidejumping this. > > Am I still correct in thinking that all these fixes are applied to > 2.5.2 and that I can quite safely install a 2.5.2 CS on an otherwise > "naked" Win2008R2x64 without expecting trouble? > > I have a consulting session next week where I want to convince the > audience to use FB instead of MSSQL and would not enjoy to get > tar-and-feathered afterwards :-)
Checkout the releasenotes of 2.5 on the filesystem cache: http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/release_notes/html/rlsnotes252.html#rnfb25-fbconf-fscache Mark
