Andreas,
this is the one thing I am getting when I am connecting to the database. I am not the one working productively on the system, so I can't really tell wether this has become faster or is still the same. LOCK_HEADER BLOCK Version: 145, Active owner: 0, Length: 7048576, Used: 540536 Flags: 0x0001 Enqs: 5031, Converts: 113, Rejects: 8, Blocks: 11 Deadlock scans: 0, Deadlocks: 0, Scan interval: 10 Acquires: 7695, Acquire blocks: 3, Spin count: 0 Mutex wait: 0.0% Hash slots: 30011, Hash lengths (min/avg/max): 0/ 0/ 4 Remove node: 0, Insert queue: 0, Insert prior: 0 Owners (3): forward: 252920, backward: 490968 Free owners: *empty* Free locks (5): forward: 254960, backward: 519480 Free requests (6): forward: 540344, backward: 403464 Lock Ordering: Enabled This is what the fb_lock_print output looks like. <SL> Those numbers look to be very good. <SL> Q: Why are you running Classic server? How many users/connections are there usually to the database? <SL> Perhaps SuperServer provide better performance - it would allow you to "blow up" the page cache size.