Maximum Server connections

Hi all, we are a little bit confused concerning the NETTYPE-Parameter. The third parameter is documented as being "the maximum number of concurrent users". What does that exactly mean? Currently our setting is NETTYPE soctcp,5,350,NET Does that mean, that only 350 connections are allowed at the same time? Is this parameter related to the following message in online.log: Maximum server connections 333 Thanks for any advices! Bye Markus

Hi, NETTYPE means:The "kind" of connection 'soctcp' (onsoctcp) will run 5 Threads and 350 users are allowed by each of this 5 threads. You can sei almost : 5 * 350 = 1750. Then 1750 users can connect in the IDS instance at same time, using soctcp connection. i.e. You can config one more: NETTYPE ipcshm,1,50,NET to use direct connections in UNIX systems as using dbaccess, etc. IBM Informix support strongly suggest to use at least processors # or processors # - 1 threads. I mean: IF your server is 6 processors you must configurate 6 or less threads in NETTYPE. Perhaps it helps you. R. Ferronato "Markus Bschorer" <mb@worxbox.com> wrote in message news:<c2phql$vdc$00$1@news.t-online.com>... > Hi all, > > we are a little bit confused concerning the NETTYPE-Parameter. The third > parameter is documented as being "the maximum number of concurrent users". > > What does that exactly mean? > > Currently our setting is > > NETTYPE soctcp,5,350,NET> > Does that mean, that only 350 connections are allowed at the same time? > > Is this parameter related to the following message in online.log: > > Maximum server connections 333 > > Thanks for any advices! > > Bye > Markus

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:16:39 -0500, Markus Bschorer wrote: > Hi all, > > we are a little bit confused concerning the NETTYPE-Parameter. The third > parameter is documented as being "the maximum number of concurrent users". > > What does that exactly mean? > > Currently our setting is > > NETTYPE soctcp,5,350,NET> > Does that mean, that only 350 connections are allowed at the same time? For tcp type connections the maximum is an initial limit which will automatically expand as needed. Also the number of allocated connection structures is per NET VP so your 5.350 is actually allocating for 1750 connections spread across 5 VPs initially. For shared memory connection types the number of connections in the NETTYPE IS indeed a hard limit as the #connections * #VPs is used to allocate shared memory segments (the 'M' segments reported by onstat -g mem) so that limit is an absolute ceiling, but again it is the product of the number of connections per VP and the number of NET or CPU VPs configured to listen. Art S. Kagel > Is this parameter related to the following message in online.log: > > Maximum server connections 333 > > Thanks for any advices! > > Bye > Markus