Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird & cluster
Author Ann W. Harrison
Yves Glodt wrote:
>
> does anybody have some experience in running firebird (classic) in an
> Openmosix or Rocks cluster?

Unless the cluster provides shared memory for the lock manager, Firebird
won't run on it.
>
> Wee need a performance improvement for a project where about 30-50
> concurrent users are hitting a 4GB database. We are using classic server
> as the server is a dual-processor machine.

What else have you tried to increase performance? Classic has the down
side that pages have to be transfered through disk when two connections
are both updating them. SuperServer was designed to be a performance
boost because it manages a shared cache and reduces the I/O load.


Regards,


Ann