[hybrid] Load balancing

[Jon Lusky]

Back in the day, a pentium 2-400 running freebsd and hydrid-5.x could handle about 75,000 users on a single server.  I don't have any current perf data, but a current version of hybrid on a modern processor running linux 2.6.x should handle a lot more than 75,000 clients.


"John C. Bland II" <johncblandii at gmail.com> wrote:

>- How complicated do you want your life to be?
>That's not really a concern. We just want to make sure our chat scales and
>scales well.
>
>- Just how many users are you expecting to support?
>Initially only a few thousand but it could spike to the 10k+ range pretty
>fast.
>
>- How much do you want to spend?
>No cost issue here.
>
>-  And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?
>Yep. We push new servers live and ircd should properly handle itself.
>
>I just want to make sure we have chosen the proper IRC server. Balancing the
>load isn't a concern right now but will be once we get more traction.
>
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>On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Peter
><peter+hybrid at ixp.jp<peter%2Bhybrid at ixp.jp>
>> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:46:36PM -0500, John C. Bland II wrote:
>> > We're looking to run Hybrid on a few servers w/ a load balancer. Are
>> there
>> > any concerns with doing this?
>> > I'm specifically looking for responses folks who have actually done this
>> and
>> > it is working. We're not big on theory. :-)
>>
>>         Ask yourself a few questions first.
>>
>>        How complicated do you want your life to be?
>>                Due to a design decision early in its life, IRCd's seem only
>>                to support a tree structure. (Can anyone gainsay me?)
>> Meaning
>>                that behind your client facing server, you need some magic
>> glue
>>                if you want to join any other network.
>>
>>        Just how many users are you expecting to support?
>>                1000, 10000? At these sort of levels, I doubt you need the
>> big iron.
>>
>>        How much do you want to spend?
>>                A lord banaliser will probably cost more than the server,
>>                unless of course, youre going to use "free" software.
>>
>>        And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?
>>
>>        Things like this will help you wrap your head around the problem.
>>        If you expect to have 13million connections, you probably don't want
>>        anything traditional at all ^^;
>>
>>        P
>>
>>

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