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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Jon Lusky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lusky@blown.net">lusky@blown.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
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"John C. Bland II" <<a href="mailto:johncblandii@gmail.com">johncblandii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">>- How complicated do you want your life to be?<br>
>That's not really a concern. We just want to make sure our chat scales and<br>
>scales well.<br>
><br>
>- Just how many users are you expecting to support?<br>
>Initially only a few thousand but it could spike to the 10k+ range pretty<br>
>fast.<br>
><br>
>- How much do you want to spend?<br>
>No cost issue here.<br>
><br>
>- And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?<br>
>Yep. We push new servers live and ircd should properly handle itself.<br>
><br>
>I just want to make sure we have chosen the proper IRC server. Balancing the<br>
>load isn't a concern right now but will be once we get more traction.<br>
><br>
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>On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Peter<br>
</div>><<a href="mailto:peter%2Bhybrid@ixp.jp">peter+hybrid@ixp.jp</a><<a href="mailto:peter%252Bhybrid@ixp.jp">peter%2Bhybrid@ixp.jp</a>><br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:46:36PM -0500, John C. Bland II wrote:<br>
>> > We're looking to run Hybrid on a few servers w/ a load balancer. Are<br>
>> there<br>
>> > any concerns with doing this?<br>
>> > I'm specifically looking for responses folks who have actually done this<br>
>> and<br>
>> > it is working. We're not big on theory. :-)<br>
>><br>
>> Ask yourself a few questions first.<br>
>><br>
>> How complicated do you want your life to be?<br>
>> Due to a design decision early in its life, IRCd's seem only<br>
>> to support a tree structure. (Can anyone gainsay me?)<br>
>> Meaning<br>
>> that behind your client facing server, you need some magic<br>
>> glue<br>
>> if you want to join any other network.<br>
>><br>
>> Just how many users are you expecting to support?<br>
>> 1000, 10000? At these sort of levels, I doubt you need the<br>
>> big iron.<br>
>><br>
>> How much do you want to spend?<br>
>> A lord banaliser will probably cost more than the server,<br>
>> unless of course, youre going to use "free" software.<br>
>><br>
>> And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?<br>
>><br>
>> Things like this will help you wrap your head around the problem.<br>
>> If you expect to have 13million connections, you probably don't want<br>
>> anything traditional at all ^^;<br>
>><br>
>> P<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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