Why do you need to know the exact amount of connections?

Do you use persistent connections? If not, the amount of connections depend on how often you open/close the connection in your application.

If you use persistent connections then:
8 computers
opening 4 separate persistent connections
= 32 simultaneous connections

Why don't you use something like wireshark to find out for yourself what goes on at the server?

> If I have two more applications on each of those 8
>computers opening 2 of the same databases, is that
>counted as more simultaneous connections?

I think this completely depends on how you implemented those connections in your own application.

If this is a problem for some reason, then rewrite your apps to use one database module on each computer that optimizes the connections (e.g. only opens 1 persistent connection to each DB) and has an API that your apps call, and let the apps only call that local module instead of talking directly to the server. OR; write your own DB->HTTP-API serverside-application, and let your apps fetch data over HTTP when they need it, and have that DB-HTTP module worry about what connections to make and when etc...

--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, "jackdmason" wrote:
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> The documentation says on Classic and SuperClassic allow simultaneous connections to a database. What is that?
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> If I have 8 computers concurrently opening 4 databases on a Firebird server, how many simultaneous connections is that?
>
> If I have two more applications on each of those 8 computers opening 2 of the same databases, is that counted as more simultaneous connections?
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