[JDEV] scaling a single server

[Russell Nelson]

temas writes:
 > I guess it's about time that jer or I interject here.  This thread is getting
 > huge and we'll become misleading to people looking at jabber.  Jer and I have
 > talked about scaling into the realm of millions of users, and for some reason
 > I'm finding myself disappointed by how everyone is viewing this problem.
 > Everyone seems to think that out of any single box we can run millions of
 > users.  This is just not possible, and completely unpractical.  Think of all
 > the XML you would be parsing.  Your CPU would decide to kill you.

I was asking if anyone has any *experience* with scaling a single
server.  In spite of all the replies, the answer seems to be "no".  I
can see how you might use multiple servers if some of the users are
foo at jabber1.example.com and some are bar at jabber2.example.com.  How
would you use multiple servers if all of the users are
foo at jabber.example.com?

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