Re: 1.0.4 and 1.3.0 released

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:37, Patrick Devine wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I've just been lurking on the list but I thought I should pipe up and say 
> that I think that concentrating on scalability is definitely the way to 
> go.  RHN has some real issues right now when it comes to scalability 
> (although mostly on their database side), and I think it's important to 
> get the rudimentary stuff nailed down first before trying to duplicate the 
> sql/management parts.

Current may never scale to the extent that RHN does. They have half or a
dozen people working full time, and Really Big Hardware.

However, if someone meant "Running Current locally for our x machines
works better than our x machines hitting RHN" then possibly.

> 
> I haven't started playing around with the 1.3 tree yet but I'm interested 
> in what kind of performance increase there is between the 1.0 and 1.3.  Is 
> anyone doing any kind of testing right now?  If I get a chance I'll see if 
> I can put together some benchmark scripts..

1.3.0 is "It works". We had to turn all the compression parts off due to
(we believe) a header issue. We're still pumping the packages themselves
with python, which is also something I think we can let apache do by
itself, but it does work.

I don't know if its faster - I bet it as, as all the protocol
setup/teardown is in apache C, instead of mostly python. Plus stunnel is
out of the way.

The big advantage you'd likely see right now is that while each client
may in fact be a little slower (compression turned off), you'll be able
to scale to 20-40-?? simultaenous clients because apache can handle
simultaneous hits - Current 1.0 can't and won't.

So for a single client benchmark, it might be a wash or against 1.3. 

Multiple _simultaneous_ clients, and 1.3 should wax 1.0 all over.

If you can run it, we'd love to hear from you. :)

Patches are even better...


 
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