Hi. I am considering using DOSEMU distributed to remote users that are accessing the server from a 64kbps frame relay connection through SSH or X.
I think this sollution would be insane, since there are 50 concurrent users at peak usage. I would need a monster server for that, right? Or more than one. >From your experiences, how many concurrent users could be running a dosemu >application in the same X or SSH server in a P4 2Ghz 1gb of RAM, IDE disks? There is also the itchy problem with locking. It is a Clipper application (again, dear reader) with a HUGE (700mb) DBF database. I don't have access to the code to port it to whatever better database format. Currently the database is being accessed through a samba share (yes, a 700mb DBF accessed from 64kbps shared by at least 10 users). Can I expect good results when mounting that share in DOSEMU while native clipper/windows clients will be using that database at the same time? In other words, will DOSEMU lock smbfs files the right way? - I can't make DOSEMU access the database directly (without samba) since that would screw locks etc etc. Even if locks went fine, I believe it would demand hardware investments. Some suggest that we should use a windows terminal server running the native application. No doubt it would be much easier. In a year or so, the application will be substituded by one that uses a RDBMS database, so we will probably migrate to Linux at last. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
