Is 4000 users too high a number for filePro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:59:47PM -0400, Scott Walker wrote:
> I've heard that IBM offers Linux on some of their Main Frame computers.

And one of the IBM guys got 44,000+ copies of it running in one
partition, as long as they were all idle.  :-)

> The mainframe is really the model that fp is built for....a big powerful
> piece of iron at the heart of things, doing all the storage and
> processing, with a bunch of dumb terminals attached (or a bunch of pc's
> running terminal emulation software, pretty much acting like dumb
> terminals).  Remember fp is NOT client server.

Yes, *but*

> Since IBM offers Linux on for its mainframes, I would look into it.  For
> sure mainframes have been handling more than 4000 users for many decades
> now.

And, oddly enough, they do it almost precisely the same way Web apps
do: whip a screen up on the user's terminal, and then ignore them
completely until they hit "Submit", er, um, I mean "Enter".  :-)

Those mainframes tend to have Pentium-III class processors (these
days), but multi-level *IO* that makes it possible to handle 12-15K
users at a time.

Cheers,
-- jra
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