[JDEV] Scalability?

[Dennis Noordsij]

On Monday 15 January 2001 13:46, you wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I just subscribed to the list, maybe I'm asking a FAQ, but I'd like to know
> if there's a possibility to scale jabber servers. Like putting up another
> box if the first one is about to burst ;)
>
> Another thing I'd like to know: How many users can a single jabber server
> handle
> at a time?
>
> We're planning on using Jabber for some thousand concurrent users.
> Some possibility to use loadbalancing would be nice, too :)
>
> Any suggestions or facts that I don't know of yet?
>
> regards,
> Andre

Hi,

If you are planning to use only a thousand users you should be fine, as far 
as I know there is no real loadbalancing, although the commercial jabber.com 
side supposedly will offer that.

For a thousand or so users, no worries :-)

Dennis

PS Real limits are messages/second. An idle user only takes up a few kb of 
memory, but 2 users sending 100 messages/second will hurt the server :-)