Re: Minutes from San Diego

Hi Shane,
    
    Can anyone running a domain Whois server report some load
    statistics here?

No problem. For .nl we don't have these nice mrtg graphs but do have
some figures. It is about 75000 a day, so doing the math, you'll
get less then 1 Hz average. But given that most lookups are during
working days, 3 Hz might do as well. I don;t have enough datapoints
on the moment.

    I know a lot of queries from both ARIN and RIPE are people
    doing data mining, and I suspect that this is true for all
    other Whois registries as well.

We don't like datamining on our whois server. It could get us in
conflict with the dutch privacy regulations. It is actually something
that RIPE should probably think about as well. I've heard that some
privacy advocates in the EU don't like any whois service at all.
    
    (Microsoft numbers)
    
    "... You can expect to get approximately 150 lookups/second, 75
    modifications/second, and 20 inserts/second on a P200 with 500 MB of RAM
    going to a well-tuned, off-box SQL Server 6.5 computer on similar
    hardware and a Membership Directory of approximately 500,000 objects."
    
I assume that these operations are not concurrenlty.

Another datapoint. We do have more then 500K objects.

	jaap