Re: Scalability issues

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. wrote:
> I see that Skyrix haven't released the "Application Level Load Balancer
> (snsd)" for OGo and that, accordingly to the "Skyrix 4.1 Admin manual",
> the minimum hardware required to run the server in a 50 users environment is
> a 500MHz machine with 512MB of RAM (recommended: Double processor, 700MHz,
> 1GB of RAM).

Thats a very "rough" estimate (and only for the WebUI). Hardware 
requirements depend on usage patterns in a *huge* way, we also have 
customer installations which host 500 WebUI users on a 1 GB dual CPU system.

Anyway, resource usage has little to do with the snsd. The snsd is 
mainly for providing concurrency by dispatching requests to various 
instances, I think there is a picture in the SKYRiX 4.1 admin guide.

> I was wondering if anyone can confirm this or if anyone is running OGo or
> even Skyrix in a much bigger environment (let's say... more than 1000
> users).

We are currently working with a customer who intends to deploy SKYRiX to 
about 5000 users. AFAIK this is planned to start out using four 
application server nodes and a storage server.
Maybe we can make a success-story if the system is finally implemented ;-)

> I'm very unfamiliar with the architecture of OGo, but does anyone here
> have any idea if it's possible to use it together with Linux HA and load
> balancing tools (LVS, drdb, heartbeat, etc)? I would be really interested in
> hearing about this.

Thats a very broad question as OGo is composed from a lot of different 
components. Eg ZideStore is very easy to cluster given that it is a 
stateless daemon (though routing based on the HTTP user will give a 
speed boost) and WebUI is a bit more difficult since session information 
needs to be retained (this is what snsd does).

But I would really like to see some people write some howto/details on 
how to setup various HA configuration (eg on docs.opengroupware.org).

regards,
   Helge
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