Host Capacity Exceeded / Scripted close

[JSTIO]

Hi All, I am new here to the forum as well as administering a filemaker server. My company is running a filemaker 8.0V4 server that hosts a dozen or so databases. Recently we remotes started recieveing and error that says host capacity exceeded.

FM Server is set to 250 connections; at most, I get 45 clients connected in at any one time. Users who are connected in can continue to work with no issue; users trying to connect in can not.

At the moment the only fix is a reboot. In the application log, i get a generic slsocket54 error quite a bit. The socket error occurs regularly, even when users can connect in.

Has any one seen this??

With that for the moment we are trying to schedule an automated reboot of the server, but i need to set up a script to close the databases and I can not find the syntax anywhere to create the script. Can someone assist with this as well?

Thanks in advance,

JOHN

[Vaughan]

"With that for the moment we are trying to schedule an automated reboot of the server..."

I think you should try to fix the problem. FMS should not be doing this.

I'll take a guess and suggest that the server hardware is not up to the task. What are its OS and hardware specs? Are there any other processes running on it besides FM Server?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

FM Server is set to 250 connections; at most, I get 45 clients connected in at any one time

This setting can in and of itself be problematic. Try cutting the connections down to about 50 to 55. You may be flooding worker threads here.

Steven

[JSTIO]

Thanks, i will try changing the connection number down,

to answer vaughan, The server is a HP Proliant GL360G4 3gig xeon with 2gig ram. FMS is the only app running on the server. the CPU is pretty much idle at all times.