10.5. Scalability
A critical factor for a distributed application is its ability to grow with the number of users, the amount of data, and the required functionality. The application should be small and fast when the demands are minimal, but it should be able to handle additional demands without sacrificing performance or reliability. DCOM provides a number of features that enhance your application's scalability.
SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING (SMP)
DCOM takes advantage of Windows 2000 support for multiprocessing. For applications that use a free-threading model, DCOM manages a thread pool for incoming requests. On multiprocessor machines, this thread pool is optimized to the number of available processors: Too many threads result in too much context ...
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