Re: [Treebase-devel] load balancing downloads

[Mattison W. <mat...@ne...>]

Yes - caching will work with the load balancing.

-Mattison

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Rutger Vos <rut...@gm...> wrote:
> I think this is an excellent idea, so you certainly have my blessing.
> I assume that, once the load balancing looks to be working correctly,
> you will be able to turn the caching back on so we have that advantage
> as well?
>
> On 12/4/12, Mattison Ward <mat...@ne...> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> During some recent testing by the Open Tree of Life folks, I was
>> reminded that the Treebase site can stop responding if it gets many
>> rapid requests to download files in nexml format and, to a lesser
>> extent, in the other formats.  I realized that it would take a trivial
>> amount of effort to load balance the Tomcat download processing to
>> some idle servers we have available.  All other requests except
>> downloads would still be served by the current web server.  This
>> avoids having to worry about session persistance and file uploads.  Of
>> course, this does not speed up downloads of files in any format, but
>> it does give us a pipeline so the site can handle several concurrent
>> downloads without locking up.
>>
>> I have this set up now (and caching turned off for testing) on
>> treebase-dev.nescent.org.   Hilmar has approved using the idle systems
>> for load balancing.  Unless someone objects, I would like to enable
>> this load balancing of file downloads on the production site at
>> treebase.org on Thursday morning.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mattison
>>
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