Hey I have finally had some more time to look into the problem I have been 
having, and have isolated and reproduced the problem. The cause of the problem 
seams to be a Varchar(36) ID column containing a guid/uuid.
 

 Steps to reproduce:
 1) Create a table(TEST) with a single varchar(36) column named ID (not null).  
 
 2) Load the table with data 4000000 rows using this: (select lower( 
uuid_to_char(gen_uuid())) from rdb$database);
 

 3) Creat a primary key on the ID column.
 4) Delete all rows in "TEST" with delete from test and commit
 5) from another connection issue "select count(*) from test"
 

 This will cause the database server to become unstable and hang for minutes at 
a time, where no new connections is made and no other queries get processed. 
 To observe this behavior, i wrote a small program that would select 
current_timestamp from the server(select current_timestamp from mon$database) 
and print how long time it took to the console. Then sleep for 500ms and then 
select the time time again. This loop ran during step 4 and 5. 
 

 I am unsure if there is a solution to this problem, or should I just create it 
as a bug in the tracker?
 

 //Thomas

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