hi,
Thanks for your advise. How am I supposed to test it. Do you know any tools
that can simulate several hundred users?

Regards
Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Shrimpton" <phil@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ib-support
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] FireBird in a heavy load environment


> On Friday 18 June 2004 10:46, uvdata wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > My company is about to implement a rather large installation which
> > has to deal with up to 400 concurrent users. The back-end
> > server is a Win2003 server dedicated to running the FireBird
> > (superserver). My question is, and I know it is a tough
> > one, can I expect to run into performance problems
>
> It is a tough one, as it depends on what you application and users are
doing.
> I have server that is at least "twice as good" as the one you plan to
use,
> and I can bring it to it's kness with a single user running a single
query,
> there again we have a system in production that supports 4-5 times the
> 'users' you plan to support on a server that is "half as good" as the the
one
> you plan to use.
>
> The only way, IMO, to know for sure is to test it. You say you plan to
> support 400 users with a DB up to a GB, so test it with 6-800 users on a
2GB
> DB. <g>
>
> Phil
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