Hello AVL,

What's the reason for each user to read this file? You can keep it in memory,
for example in cache, and user get file from cache not from hard drive?

A> Hi,
A> I need some info on text and xml files......
A> How many users can simultaneously read a text or xml file...
A> I've a web appliaction which needs to access a text file and a xml
A> file..
A> The current users of the system are around 1000 people...
A> Can 500 amongst them read those files simultaneously?? Does it affect
A> the performance of teh applcation in any ways.....
A>
A> Help required on the above query...
A>
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