1000+ users connect to a file share, and write to a file... Best way?

[rmoyes02]

I have 1000+ users connecting to a file share, and writing a text file every 30 seconds. This equals to be about 33 file writes per second on the server. This bog's the server down a lot. I'm currently using fso to write the file.

Is there a better method of writing files to the server in which i won't cause the server to slow down?

Maybe a way not using file sharing?

Thanks

 

[dilettante]

If this information doesn't require immediate posting I'd have the clients submit a message to an MSMQ machine queue on some server. Have a small application started by a Trigger collect the data and process it.

This pretty much presumes that (1.) it's all within your own network (though this isn't a requirement), (2.) they're all Windows boxes, and (3.) these "files" are all under a couple of MB in size.

Actually both the client logic and the Trigger application could be scripts.

Of course 33 messages per second of 2MB each would be a bit much. Hope the box has good network connectivity!