Fw: What is MaxConnect

["Vasyl Shulzhenko" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Heiko Giesselmann <heiko.giesselmann@informix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Sent: 9 ???? 2000 ?. 0:34
Subject: Re: What is MaxConnect


> Don Ignacio wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Does anybody know what MaxConnect is? Any
> > documents?
> >
> > This was mentioned in the release of IDS 9.21.
> >
> > Don
>
> Hi Don,
>
> the MaxConnect manual (
> http://www.informix.com/answers/english/docs/10maxcon/6678.pdf)  contains
most
> of the information you would want to have about MaxConnect.
>
> MaxConnect is a connection server that allows the database server to a
much
> larger number of users than without MaxConnect. For a given number users
> (connected through TCP/IP) it will reduce the CPU load on the database
server by
> shifting connection management from the database server to the MaxConnect
layer.
> MaxConnect is supported with database server version 9.21 and above.
>
> MaxConnect was used in last years world record benchmark with Baan (
> http://www.informix.com/informix/press/1999/oct99/benchmark.htm - the
press
> release uses the preliminary name Informix Connection Server), and was
used to
> support more than 18000 SQL sessions on a 8 CPU box.
>
> Hope this helps, Heiko
>