Quite interesting. I wonder if that problem will occur in Windows Server 2003.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:22 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Windows 2000 Server > > I would like to know if anybody has experienced a problem with Windows 2000 > > server and Rbase in the mutil user mode. It seems that when I have one user > > logged in the system runs fine but if more than one person is logged in the > > system runs extremely slow. > > Yes, such a problem exists. The problem is related to the Windows networking > scheme and affects some, but not all, installations. It depends on a number of > factors and, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever figured out exactly when > the problem would occur. > > When the problem _does_ occur, it affects all programs that use shared access > to files on the server. Thus, you see the same thing happening in Access, > Foxpro, and so on. If you search newsgroups, you will find the occasional user > of those programs asking the same question you are. > > The problem is that when the necessary conditions exist and files are opened in > shared mode the network traffic increases by close to 100 times. > > Unfortunately, I don't know of any solution. I believe that whatever the > underlying conditions are, one constant is always that Windows 2000 Server is > involved on the server end -- if you have another machine that can host the > database files that may be the quickest work around for you. >
