>> They do things like run long reports, and do heavy duty data processing in the Web tier where it doesn't belong.
>> In those scenarios, it'll take a lot less than 10 million hits to 'break' an application. In fact with Visual FoxPro in general (and I don't care if you use ASP+COM, Web Connection or whatever)
>> it won't take more than a few badly timed requests to kill a Web application and the entire server.
Hi Rick,
If possible, could you describe what might happen to the web server when several users request such heavy-duty report rendered by VFP MTDLL+ASP application. What could be done to prevent/improve the situation on the server side?
Thanks for your postings; this particular discussion -- I find it especially helpful.