Firebird 3.0 SMP support feature marked as resolved
A visitor of FBNews (Simon) just pointed out that the ticket for “SMP support in FB 3” was marked as resolved by Dmitry Yemanov today, in the Firebird tracker.
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Last call for Jaybird users
Jaybird users and developers are invited to participate in the currently on-line survey that will be open until tomorrow (28-Sept).
International Firebird Conference topics
Today the list of sessions of the next International Conference (Luxemburg) was published. You can check all the details here. If you are planning to participate, hurry up and subscribe online now.
Survey for Jaybird users is on-line! Participate now.
The Jaybird team would like to invite developers and users of Jaybird to fill out a survey on your use of Jaybird (Firebird JDBC driver). You can find the survey at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm. The results of the survey will be used to decide where to focus development of the upcoming Jaybird versions.
Mark Rotteveel
The survey will be online until 28-September. If you use Jaybird in your projects, don’t miss the chance to participate in this survey.
International Firebird Conference 2012
Hello All,
Firebird Conference 2012 will take place October 26-27, in Luxembourg. Please plan your journey to the main Firebird event of the year!
Now we are calling for papers – please send talks’ proposals to case@firebirdsql.org if you’d like to present there.
Current sponsors are Sita Software, IBPhoenix and IBSurgeon, other sponsors are very welcome.
Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)
Understanding barrier on Linux
It is known that massive write operations in Firebird databases (like updates affecting thousands or millions of records) had become much slower in more recent Linux servers. After investigation, I found this to be related with the fact that most recent distros brings the barrier parameter of the filesystem activated.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to solve this “problem” completely, without opening a door for corruption. The slow down when barrier is enabled can be minimized a lot if the database is configured with forced writes OFF, but this also may lead into corruption if something bad happens to the server.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to share an article that helps to understand how barrier works and why it slow down such kind of operations.
9th Firebird Developers Day (report)
The report (with pictures) of the 9th edition of the Firebird Developers Day is now available (in English and Portuguese). Thanks for all attendees, speakers and sponsors! See you in next year, celebrating 10 years of the conference!
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More than R$ 4.000 donated for protocol performance enhancement
Many attendees of the 9th Firebird Developers Day donated money to sponsor the enhancement of the Firebird protocol, known to be “slow” in high latency networks (ie: internet). This is the #1 voted feature in the Firebird tracker! The development will be done by Dmitry Yemanov, chief of the Firebird development team, and available in Firebird 3 (with chances of being partially backported to Firebird 2.5.x). A list with the names of all donors and values can be found here.