Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 31 16:44:27 CDT 2006
Hi Steve: You hit the answer right on: <Steve> This is normal for Access. It grabs as much resources as it can get to perform data access requests. And I've never heard of a server blowing up from too many simultaneous requests. Windows is designed to handle process threading reasonably well, putting things in order, assigning priorities, reserving some CPU for critical processes, etc </Steve> We had 65 users hitting a Server (only 512 MGs, held the BE Access and a MS SQL 2000 that actually held the data). Thought the connection was not through Citrix when one person hit utilization would jump to 100% and there were as many as 20 on at any one. No one ever complained that they could not get on or that the system is too slow. I am sure if you had 8GB of RAM, on a box and started up one copy of Access it would show 100% utilization. HTH Jim