Everyone,
Here is the link to Mike Nice's ODBC fix.
http://home.att.net/~niceman/
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric A. Shanbrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Scalability
> There is a customized DLL (by someone on this list) that solves these
> problems. I can't remember who or the URL to get though. If someone would
> send it to me directly (off this list) I will see if I can get it posted
on
> the web site.
>
> Eric S
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne Maw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Scalability
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "STEVEN MOORE (IFL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: 15 December 1999 17:12
> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Scalability
> >
> >
> > > Hi Wayne,
> > >
> > > We probably run user counts of the same order of magnitude on Imail
> > however
> > > over many smaller (though still beefy) servers, we are looking to get
> > better
> > > use out of our servers and scale the number of users up, whilst using
> SQL
> > to
> > > allow better administration.
> > >
> > > Is there any particular part of the Imail software that falls over
more
> > > often.
> >
> > pop3 requests stop authenticating.
> >
> > > In particular I'd be really interested in problems you've experienced
> with
> > > the IMAP4 and SMTP services.
> > > Also is this the standard ODBCuser.dll or a custom fixed version?
> >
> > standard.
> >
> > with a work around for the fact that it won't work multi-processor/
> threaded
> > correctly.
> >
> > 1 in 3 auths fail due to cursor conflict:
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q175/9/04.asp
> >
> > so we have to direct it via an access db with linked tables.
> >
> > >
> > > As an aside we experience some problems whilst hammering a competing,
> but
> > > similar, product when the amount of active threads or handles were
> pretty
> > > large (1000+, 2 processors), windows NT seemed to lose connection to
> > shares
> > > and other RPC based systems. We basically put this down to the ratio
of
> NT
> > > server threads to application/service threads, we didn't get much
> evidence
> > > though.
> > >
> > Not noticed anything like that..
> >
> > >
> > > As an other aside I would wonder what happens when the dll is being
> called
> > > by many threads at once to provide connections to the SQL server. The
> > > documentation for the dll seems to suggest that it is kept active
after
> > the
> > > first connection, I wonder if it can handle multiple threads at all.
(I
> do
> > > not really know enough about multithreading to comment on this last
> bit.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for any experiences you had.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Steven Moore
> > >
> >
> > Wayne.
> > {Callnetuk.com Admin}
> >
> >
> >
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