Maximum Servers (-Mn)

Use Maximum Servers (-Mn) to limit the number of remote user servers that can be started by the broker process.

Operating system and syntax UNIX / Windows -Mn n
Use with Maximum value Minimum value Single-user default Multi-user default
Database Server —1 1 — 4
n
The maximum number of remote client servers that can be started on the system. The value specified is always incremented by 1 to provide a server for the primary login broker.
Note: The maximum value for the number of servers that may be started for a database is limited by available resources of the operating system.
Note that Maximum Servers (-Mn) can be updated while the database is running. To modify this parameter while the database is online, use PROUTIL INCREASETO. For example, the following command increases the number of remote user servers that the broker can start to a maximum of 10 for a database named sports2020
proutil sports2020 -C increaseto -Mn 10

A performance trade-off to consider for the number of servers is the swapping overhead for many servers versus overloading (slowing down) a smaller number of servers with too many clients. For more information about controlling memory use, see Manage the OpenEdge Database.

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

1 Limited by available resources.