Speeding up IBDatabase connection time
You might want to write a small routine that simply connects to the 3050
port on the server and does nothing else. I'm assuming this is the part
that's taking the most time.
Dan
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"JohnP" <jper...@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Many of my users are mobile (notebook) users that may be in different
> locations where different servers are running an Interbase DB. I keep a
> connection record (server:path) in each user's system. When they start
> the application, it tries to connect to the most recently used
> connection. After the IBDatabase object 'gives-up' when not finding that
> server, I then try the next connection in the 'previously used' list.
> The problem is that this process is quite slow. Any ideas on either
> speeding up the time-out or some other method of 'pre-test' for finding
> an active Interbase server? (The servers are all Linux-based - the
> clients all Windoz-based.)
> TIA