CJ:
One and half year before, TicketMaster.ca has 2 NT4+sp3 server, ISDN,
PII-266+128M.
The first one is for static HTML file, not have any trouble with move
than 100 socket connection on same time.
The second Sever has Perl CGI, will query the DB and create HTML dynamically.
Under most situation, 20 connection is OK, if more connection last a little bit
long time (3 hour), you have to restart system for some unknown memory leak
problem. We set system only allow max 50 connection, because when connection
got more than 40, system became really busy.
Please note, the DB is very old version and locate on another old mainframe, so
it cause more time on DB query. If your system is new DB, it may faster, and
you can expect more connection.
No matter what, you had to re-start your system at least one time a week.