At 06:48 PM 9/26/02 +0400, Nickolay Samofatov wrote:

>
>SMP version was there for years. I already told that
>I configured 8-way machine which sucessfully handles
>load from more than 3000 concurrent users for more than
>a year. It uses Firebird 1.0 CS running on Red Hat Linux 7.0.
>

Excuse me, but GDS Galaxy (aka Interbase) X1.0 Beta 1 worked
on SMP and clusters. That's not the point. The point is
that it doesn't work well on SMP and clusters because of
interprocess page ping-pong under heavy update contention.

Jim Starkey