Re: SE Distributed Processing Questions

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:23:02 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Rajendra Singh wrote: > > We have two machines (HP-UX servers) on our network. Machine "A" is the main > machine which currently handles all of the database processing (SE, not Online). > Machine "B" also has Informix SE installed on it (this machine is not being used > in production, used for testing mainly). Is it possible to distribute some of > the processing between the two? > > For example, can some users logon to Machine B and use the database on machine > A? Will this cause table corruption since Kernel locking is used? No, no problem at all. Remember that database operations for clients are actually carried out by the sqlexec process in SE which is always a local process even if the client is remote. Art S. Kagel