--- In ib-support@y..., "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@i...> wrote:

> At 02:31 PM 5/18/2001 -0400, Robert F. Tulloch wrote:
>
> I believe the problem showed up at about 50 users. Rather than

waiting

> quietly for the "cumulative" record to be free, they'd get an error

and

> retry immediately. Eventually, the volume of retries overwhelmed

the

> server, leading to more retries, etc. I believe it's called "live

lock".

Hi, Ann. When I tried to implement similar technique on 1 table of
300 four years ago with IB4 and 15 users, I had this drama
approximately 1 time for 10 days.

Best regards.