André Knappstein wrote:

> Hi Mitch!
>
> If it's Windoof you're installing it on then mind the zombies!
>
>

I may have zombies.

I thought I had everything running smoothly, when another group brought
their stuff online. They are connecting through iis (not sure how, will
find out tomorrow as I must now debug the entire project).

My scenario:

typically about 25 users connected through pooled sessions in a 3 tier
environment. Another 5-10 in a pure client server environment, and
another handful through the iis... but these are supposedly connecting,
getting data and shutting down.

I'm finding this isn't the case. In fact, the IIS processes are
consuming an entire processor, and never release ( as if a rogue query
is being run, and the client disappears).

Much more on this tomorrow as i will recreate the problem with some
tools in place to monitor the traffic.

I may revert back to SS, but, seems such a waste, the new server is
screaming fast when things are behaving. Not sure of that has to do
with the quad core, or the new disks and controllers.

> FB 1.5.x has a problem with connections kept alive, resources kept
> reserved. Only affects CS on Windows, not SS on Windows, not anything
> on Linux. I reported that and it finally was proven an existing bug
> and was fixed in 2.x, but not backported to 1.5.x.
>
> Those zombies won't harm me on the old 1.5 CS I have, because I know
> the maximum amount of resources for the highest possible number of
> zombies in our company, and that server is fit for that.
>
> Can be bad though if the highest number of possible connections
> exceeds the abilities of your server.
>
>

Thanks Andre,
Mitch