At 10:05 AM 24-01-02 +0100, you wrote:

>hi,
>
>>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. The 5.6 API will top you out at 254, >so it's probably something with your licence.
>
>okay, and how many users does FB support?
>what is the theoretical value?
>and have anybody experience with 500 users or so?
>i allways thought the limit is 100 users ....

Currently I think it's 1024 (might be more); but the resources of your server complex would need to be rather elephantine to support that many simultaneous connections and their work...

Helen

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