Hi,

> Scenario will be approximately 5000 simultaneous connections, in an
> n-tier application developed in Delphi 2010, I need to know what is the
> minimum configuration for the firebird support without loss of
> performance.

Hard to tell without knowing what these connections are doing.

Is the middle tier creating 5000 database connections as well? Or does it
use some kind of connection poolling mechanism?

What kind of activity do you expect?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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> Alexandre Benson Smith escreveu:
>>
>>
>> Vinicius wrote:
>> > a machine with 10 processors which would be the approximate limits
>> >
>>
>> 10 CPU's and ????
>> 16KB of RAM ?
>> 20MB MFM disk using stacker ?
>> 10mbits coaxial cable link ?
>> Runing on MS-DOS 3.1 ?
>>
>> To support wich kind of query ?
>> select * from VeryBigTableWithoutIndices order by VeryBigVarCharColumn1,
>> VeryBigVarCharColumn2, VeryBigVarCharColumn3
>>
>> It's impossible to answer your question if you don't provide *much* more
>> information...
>>
>> Why don't you describe your expected scenario ?
>>
>> see you !