Hi, If you use default fb config then i suppose your cache settings is very very small. Change DefaultDbCachePages to value greater then your db size in pages. Then restart server and run test again. You should have fastest response time. I recommend you also 16k db page size for better index support (smaller index deep)
Regards, Karol Bieniaszewski ----- Reply message ----- Od: "'Costantino Molinari' c.molin...@tiscali.it [firebird-support]" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> Do: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> Temat: [firebird-support] How to improve Firebird 2.5.3 Disk I/O on Windows server 2012 R2 Data: pt., wrz 26, 2014 12:44 Hello,I have installed Firebird 2.5.3 SuperServer x64 on a Windows server 2012 R2 (x64).At the moment I have done no changes in firebird.conf Hardware resources are: 2 x 12core Intel Xeon, 32 GB DDR3 Ram, 6 x 1.2TB SAS RAID 10, 1 GB Ram on 6Gbps RAID controller with Flash Backup and Battery Backup on it. The IOPS values with CristalDiskMark ( 5 x 100MB test) are: Seq 3805R 3754W512K 2787R 2756W4K 109R 106W4K QD32 440W 338W The problem is that i see long time of execution in read/write to a very little FB database (about 100 MB, it’s a new one, just for tests before production)The application reads from a text file, checks in FB table if the record exists, than writes the record in the same table. This is for about 35000 records.The application takes about 9 minutes to end.Now, with same application, same DB, Same Firebird version, but on an old 2003 server monoprocessor, old raid 1 controller, it takes about 12’ minutes to end. So my new W2012 is faster, but only 3 minutes less, I thi nk I can really obtain better performances.I have read lots of documentation about File System Cache or DB Cache Pages, but honestly I need some good indication from anyone of you, because I’m very new with Firebird and I think there are several settings to obtain the best from this brand new and “speedy” hardware. Thank in advance to anyone who will try to help me.Costantino
