We have on average 100 connections.

Our system is a PoS System.
This customer has stores where you buy clothes.
In this chrismas times there is a lot of activity.
They sell a lot, and they do a lot of statistics.
The gab grows, when some users is just getting some statistics and previewing them on screen. Sometimes the user just leaves the computer and a transaction is running. If they do nothing, the program will after an hour close down the application (closing querys, commit transactions and disconnecting).

Michael

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, John vd Waeter <john@...> wrote:
>
> > Which is 600.000 a day.
> > Which is 25.000 an hour.
> > Which is near 416 a minute.
>
> > Is this a lot, a little or ?
> > What is the normal value, if one can talk about normal?
>
> If you have 200 users thats 2 a minute per user.
> If they update databases with sold houses, they sell a lot of houses...
>
> IOW, hard to say if not known what the db is used for.
>
> > BTW - Duing the day, the gab between transactions here is somewhere between 1 and 150.000. And when the last one disconnects at night, its always down to 1.
> >
>
> That means the transaction-handling in the clients at least finishes all
> transactions.
>
> However, if the gap is abt 150000 and you have 200 users, then that is
> (average) 750 open transactions per user... looks a lot to me! No
> problem if user 1 does not need data committed by user2, but again, hard
> to say if it is not known what your db is used for and how many users
> are connected.
>
> John
>