Progress
Startup Command and Parameter
Reference


Maximum Servers (-Mn)

Operating 
System
and
Syntax 
UNIX
NT 
-Mn n 
Use
With 
Maximum
Value 
Minimum
Value 
Single-user
Default 
Multi-user
Default 
DBS
512
1
 
4

n

The maximum number of remote client servers that can be started on the system.

Use Maximum Servers (-Mn) to limit the number of remote user servers that can be started by the broker process. The performance tradeoff to consider is swapping overhead for many servers versus overloading (slowing down) a server with too many clients. For more information on controlling memory use, see the Progress Database Administration Guide and Reference.

This parameter pertains only to multi-user versions of Progress that use shared memory. In addition, this parameter applies only to databases that are accessed from remote network nodes.

Also, use Minimum Clients per Server (-Mi) to adjust the actual number of servers in use. See the Maximum Clients Per Server (-Ma) and Minimum Clients per Server (-Mi) startup parameters for more information.


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