Subject RE: [firebird-support] Linux Performance 1.5.1
Author Alan McDonald
> > But classic I think is supposed to cater for greater concurrent
> users that
> superserver.
>
> No. Not AFAIK.
> classic is *required* to use SMP systems.
> Each client gets its own server process and those can be bound to one
> processor.
> However, more threads require more memory and so the client
> connection count
> is much more limited than the connection count with superserver,
> which uses
> one process only and at least one thread per client and therefor can share
> memory...
>
> Regards,
> Steffen

So I suppose we are saying that Classic is best advised for fewer
concurrrent users but greater loads per user than superserver which can
handle greater concurrent numbers on lighter simultaneous loads??
Alan