Suggestion: if you have admin rights on the machine install a ramdisk (there are several available for Windows and MS themselves offered them for some earlier Windows versions) as say R: and tell Windows to use R: for temp files.
In older versions of Windows you set up TEMP=R: TMP=R: as the environment of a batch file that runs the database - I am out of touch with Windows now but I guess you can still do something similar - ask your favourite Windows guru how you do that these days. The effect is that the software (both Windows and Firebird) thinks it's writing normal files but in reality the entire structure (folders and everything) is built in RAM. Just a thought offered in case it helps R~~ On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 03:06 bieten2...@yahoo.de [firebird-support], < firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > Hi Dalton, Alexey and Dimitry, > > thanks for your answers, I very much appreciate the support. > > It is correct, that I do not want to get rid of the sorting files, I just > want them to stay in RAM where I suspect that it could be advantageous for > performance. > Unfortunately I can't tell you what specific hard drives are in use because > I can't access them, but I was told that they are commercial HDD (not > SSD) . > Raid is most certainly employed, which one I do not know. > The Database File as well as Firebird DBMS are installed on the same > machine. This server is exclusively for the Firebird DBMS + Databases, > there is no other software trying to contest resources. > An ERP Software which is installed on an application-server connects to > the Firebird-DB-Server using port 3050. Said application is made available > to many clients using Windows RDP/ RDS. > Windows RDP/ RDS is not installed on the application server but on > dedicated RDP/ RDS servers. > I have not analysed the queries because I have not written them and lack > the necessary tools (and know-how). Query analysis is an issue that would > require a Firebird specialist. > My hope was, that by following the performance guides, notable performance > increases may be archived. > Optimal results can only be realized with an in-depth analysis, I am very > aware of that but I would like to get the "simple tuning" right first. > Alexey told me, that the TempCacheLimit can be set to 20 GB. > My current setting is 567108864 (540 MB), that's much too low, I will > increase it. > > After reading all the FB guides online I tried to optimize the > Firebird.conf to the best of my ability (see below). > Maybe someone will spot a bad setting and give me a tip :-) > > #RootDirectory = > #DatabaseAccess = Full > #ExternalFileAccess = None > #UdfAccess = Restrict UDF > #TempDirectories = > #LegacyHash = 1 > #Authentication = native > #AuditTraceConfigFile = > #MaxUserTraceLogSize = 10 > DefaultDbCachePages = 2048 > #DatabaseGrowthIncrement = 134217728 > #FileSystemCacheThreshold = 65536 > #FileSystemCacheSize = 0 > #RemoteFileOpenAbility = 0 > TempBlockSize = 2048576 > TempCacheLimit = 567108864 > #CompleteBooleanEvaluation = 0 > #DeadlockTimeout = 10 > #MaxUnflushedWrites = 100 > #MaxUnflushedWriteTime = 5 > #BugcheckAbort = 0 > #OldColumnNaming = 0 > #OldSetClauseSemantics = 0 > #RelaxedAliasChecking = 0 > #ConnectionTimeout = 180 > #DummyPacketInterval = 0 > #RemoteServiceName = gds_db > #RemoteServicePort = 3050 > #RemoteAuxPort = 0 > #TcpRemoteBufferSize = 8192 > #TcpNoNagle = 1 > #RemoteBindAddress = > LockMemSize = 99614720 > #LockGrantOrder = 1 > #LockAcquireSpins = 0 > LockHashSlots = 30011 > #EventMemSize = 65536 > #CpuAffinityMask = 1 > #UsePriorityScheduler = 1 > #PrioritySwitchDelay = 100 > #PriorityBoost = 5 > #GCPolicy = combined > #GuardianOption = 1 > #ProcessPriorityLevel = 0 > #IpcName = FIREBIRD > #RemotePipeName = interbas > #Redirection = 0 > > Best Regards, > James > > >
