On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 16/06/14 11:54, [email protected] a écrit : > > .. > >> Maximum Simultaneous Connections 11,656,238 > > Current max sockets connections on an EC2 host is 250K. This means we'll > > need approx. 46 servers to handle the long term max sim. connections. > > The RAM is possibly the driving factor here - depending on how much we > want to spend... > > 250k/box is the hard limit we've bumped into the EC2 platform, but to > make sure we can even reach that number, > we'd need to test that with the real app stack to see how much memory > overhead it adds for every connection. (4k ? 10k ? 20k ?) > > Bottom line is: we need to test that with a Loop stack > > > This seems to be a lot of servers (for 500M users). > > It seems unrealistic to consider that 500M users will use Loop imho. > Shouldn't we base this on the number of weekly active users maybe ? > Stepping up a level, if we actually had 500M users, 46 servers seems like it's pretty cheap. This is a good problem to have. I suggest we do what's convenient now and then if it turns out that it's too expensive, we can tune the protocol in future. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
