Re: [Openinteract-dev] Scaling up

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 08:48, And...@Be... wrote:
> it seems like we will start a new project soon which will be a customer care
> system upon OI and think about scaling the servers up to support the load.
> The idea is, that we do not want lots of unrelated systems for every
> application. 
> ...

I think what you propose should be fine. There's nothing stateful held
in any of the modperl servers, particularly since (hah!) caching hasn't
been implemented yet. So requests should be able to use any server
interchangably. The one caveat would be for sessions, but IIRC you're
using the database for this so that's not a problem

If you haven't already seen it, read Perrin's article detailing the
heavy duty eToys setup.[1] It's well written and extremely helpful.

One note: since caching is not implemented in SPOPS or OI, you want to
be sure that your DB server rocks like a hurricane. (But you probably
already knew that :-)

Chris

[1] http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/etoys.html

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