Hi Helen,

> >Does the API still top out at 148 users regardless of how many more than
> >that you have attached?
> >
> >Does on 5.6 with Server Mgr.
>
> InterBase 5.6 has an absolute limit of 254 users for no better reason than

it's counted with a short. It was fixed in Firebird very early, so it's
likely that Borland followed suit in their commercial IB 6.
And 5.6.1 I thought (I got 5.7).

>The 5.6 API will top you out at 254, so it's probably something with your

licence.
Nope, connections went all the way up to 254.

>
> Either that, or your 149th connection blows the disk cache...or 149 has

some other metaphysical significance to IB 5.6...

>

I like the metaphysical one.


Anyway, the sooner I can get off of 5.x the better....

goodnight.

JAC.