--- In ib-support@y..., Paul Reeves <paul@f...> wrote:

> Tommy Toh wrote:
> >
> > i'm doing a project with (classis server) firebird interbase and

the

> > final usage will requried a few hundreds of user concurrent
> > connecting to the database.
> > so here anyone had implemented firebird that has a smilar

enviroment

> > as my.
> > by the way where can i the white paper for firebird(classis

server)

> > that decscripe the no. of con-current user.
>
> The classic server is not suited to large numbers of concurrent

connections,

> although I believe there are some HP-UX boxes out there that are

achieving this.

>
> What hardware are you planning to implement on? If it is a Linux

box with a

> single processor I would suggest that you go with the Super Server

version,

> rather than Classic. If it is multi-processor and has a SCSI 3 raid

array you

> might find that Classic will be able to support that number of

users.

>
> In general it is recommended that you use some kind of middle tier

connection

> pooling under these circumstances. That is how most developers (for

most

> databases servers, in fact) support large numbers of concurrent

users.

>
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Reeves
> http://www.ibphoenix.com
> taking InterBase further

hi i'm using sun solaris. i'm using multi-processor. basically
interbase has to be access by at least 2 or 3 hundreds concurrent
connecttion vi the web, expecting more during peak season.