Re: IIS User Limit for XP Pro ?

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:22:23 -0500

Windows XP Pro is only designed to be used as a development
platform & not really to serve up web pages in a "production" type
of environment.

Having said that, XP Pro allows 10 concurrent connections to the computer.
That means that 5 users to the web site maximum as most browsers (IE & NS)
take 2 connections every time they connect to your server. If you have user A in
the network connected to the box, then connections to your web server will be
reduced to 4 users. Dumping IIS & installing apache will not resolve this issue
as the number of connections is controlled at the OS level & not the application level.

There is a little known workaround to this --- you can disable http-keepalives in
the web site settings & that will allow the server to server more pages more quickly
thus reducing the amount of "Server Too Busy" errors. 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"E-Double" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:267C0494-2845-4FFE-AAC5-CE80D096A331@microsoft.com...
| Is there a client user limit for IIS on XP Pro ?  I had thought that the MS Client operating systems usually 
had a 10 client limit for networking/apps ( e.g. IIS ) but when trying to run a webcast this XP Pro machine 
will only 'connect' to five clients - after that the video does not pull up for any more clients unless one of 
the previously-connected ones disconnects.  What gives ?  TIA ...
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