A bit of history here. I'm sure that these high user counts all participate with telnet connections. Back in the day, I believe circa 1983-5, Ted Sabarese, president of Ultimate, illustrated one of the highest number of connected *serial* terminals on one system. It was an interesting photograph as he lined up 1,000 dumb terminals on the bleachers at a local high school and had them all BLOCK-PRINTing something like their port number.
I don't exactly remember the machine's specs, but given the Microdatas of that time it probably had 260MB disc drive, 8 MB of 'core' memory and the latest '14x' processor. Boy, I wish I knew what those speeds of those older systems were in today's terms. 2x, 7x, 14x...What's an 'x'? IIRC, the original IBM-PC was 4.7Mhz. My 4.7 cents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:32 PM Subject: RE: How far can U2 scale? I would imagine in any of the scenarios that has been given, if some form of "local" (client side) intelligence is employed, coupled with a non-persistent connection scheme to the central database, that the numbers that have been quoted here (2-10,000) could easily be multiplied by a factor of 5-10 ..... but of course you may hit the wall in terms of saleability of web servers (web farms), network topology & infrastructure etc. I think it would be fair to say, within the parameters that others have outlined (massively large databases vs. massively large user populations) that there are no practical limits to mv scalability. I recall hearing a story about when Tim Holland migrated Pick Open Architecture to the Sequoia machine. Similar concerns were raised about the saleability of "pick", but it soon became obvious that it was the underlying Unix that would be "pushed" Given the historic position that mv allows you to do more with less, I don't think we should be too surprised by this. Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage – an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Ray Wurlod >Sent: Saturday, 24 April 2004 9:05 AM >To: U2 Users Discussion List >Subject: RE: How far can U2 scale? > >There are quite a few sites running upwards of 2000 users in my region >(Asia Pacific). The model is many small users (such as insurance brokers, >accountants, tax agents, etc.) having dial-in access. One site is licensed >for 3300 users, and sustains a load over 3000 users most of the day with >acceptable response metrics. Strictly two tier (one tier really). > >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: 21/04/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: 21/04/2004 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
