[JDEV] Scalability?

[Andre Naumann]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Noordsij" <dennis.noordsij at wiral.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Scalability?


> 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 :-)

Hmmm... a few thousand for me are: 250000 in the first year :)

> 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 :-)

Hmmm.. We use a Sun e420R (4 * UltraSparc2 at 450MHz , 4GB of RAM) for the
jabber
server, Sun take high I/O loads quite well :)

Someone should try publishing a jabber tests suite...