Re: How to copy with large user running concurrently?

Sounds like a polling booth application. cheers j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:25 PM Subject: Re: How to copy with large user running concurrently? > 100 user license and you want 50,000 to use the system - interesting:-) > > How many are truly concurrent? What are they doing, how are they > entering the data, is it logged, is the system on it's knees with > a 100 users etc etc > > On our web sites the worst 'real' true concurrent rate we see is about > 100 (ish), this equates back to about 1M page per hour. We've peaked > at about 2000 with a run queue over 1500 (ish) but there was an index > missing. > > Cheers > Paul > > roger huang wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > I have a SUN host ,F12000, 4cpu, 4 GB ram, running IDS 7.3 and it > > servers about 100 users at regular time and working fine. Now that We > > have a plan to open to the public for query and inserting data for a > > few days, and there will be more than 50 thousands peoples come in at > > the same time, and insert data concurrently. I am scared that the > > system will crash or what, I can't image what will it happen at that > > time. > > I don't want to cost much more money to scale up my host, because It > > last only for a few days. Is anyone can help me through this > > cheaperly? > > -- > Paul Watson # > Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory > Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional > Fax: +44 1436 678693 # > Mob: +44 7818 003457 # > www.oninit.com # sending to informix-list