Please tell me if we are doing this right...

We have 2 webservers and 1 dataserver, we also have 2 MTS dlls: UI and DATA. we places one copy of UI on each webservers and registered it w/ COM+. (so each webserver has its own copy).
then we placed DATA dll on dataserver and linked to it from each webserver's COM+ using something like: \\100.100.100.100\<the_path>\Data.dll
so there is only one copy of Data dll residing on dataserver but registered on both webservers, they share it.

please help.
shizo.

We're rolling out a similar architecture. I'm assuming when you say "... and linked to it from each webserver's COM+ ... " that you used the COM+ proxy/stub export tool. Or did you install the Data.dll as though it was a local component? Anywho, we've done a ton of performance testing and found that to be horribly slow compared to having our data component installed on each webserver(i.e. each webserver has it's own dll for dataaccess). Maybe others have had a better success putting the data access component on the database server, post if ya have.

thanks pvb for reply,

i just moved the data dll to both web servers and we ARE getting better results, you were right. i will not know until tomorrow for sure if this is actually a better solution when people are gonna come (weekend are usually slower)

again thanks,
wojo