I totaly agree with Ashvil. It's the same kind of discussion I was trying discuss in the jadmin list. You can follow the the below discussion in the jadmin list.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alper Tarhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [jadmin] When may the scalability issues solved?? > Do you think these performance parameters are really necessary for the > design? > I mean in my opinion, anyone suffering from scalability and performance > should easily be able to overcome this problem by adding a new hardware box > to the farm. > I know it is easy to talk about it :) and it may require radical changes in > the design but it doesnt seem impossible. > > This issue is the most important advantage of the commercial server over > the open-source one. > It's for sure Jabber.com has to earn some money to stay alive and continue > support for Jabber technology. > But in my opinion without solving the scalability issues, the open-source > server will go no furher than serving > limited community of users and never being considered as a mass IM > technology or an alternative to the commercial one. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Saint-Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:52 AM > Subject: Re: [jadmin] When may the scalability issues solved?? > > > > Well I think we'd need to set some parameters. It's easy to talk about > > scalability but how high do people (e.g., you) really need to scale in > > terms of registered users, concurrent users, messages per second, and so > > on? Hard numbers will give developers some design goals. > > > > Peter > > > > -- > > Peter Saint-Andre > > email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: http://www.saint-andre.com/ > > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Alper Tarhan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > I have been following the Jabber technologies through this list for > about a year. > > > And I have also setup a server myself and wrote a simple client for > test. > > > > > > At that time, I was searching for messaging technologies and heard about > Jabber. > > > After some research, my first question was the "Scalability Issues" > which seemed a major problem to me. > > > I wrote it to the list and I asked what to do or any plans for solving > this. > > > I was told that by the time I was able to collect that many users, the > problem would be already solved. > > > I havent of course that many users but without the techn. availability, > you cannot promote your service with confidence. > > > > > > As you can see the frequent posts on this list, "Scalability Issues" are > still the major concern for many of us. > > > I appreciate and congratulate all the designers, developers and > contributers to this technology. > > > But in order to boost it, in my opinion, it is a Priority #1 issue to be > solved. > > > > > > I know there are methods to increase the # concurrent users on a single > machine. > > > There are also contributions to allow for farming and multiplexing > socket connections. > > > Do it yourself may be a method, but I think this issue must be solved in > design and standardly integrated in the main architecture . > > > Again in my opinion, the best way would be the farming with support for > a central xdb, which would give the most flexible architecture in terms of > scalability and high-availability. > > > > > > You can offer the "Jabber.com" commercial product for those big players, > but you know it wouldnt be the best solution for many of us. > > > > > > I would be pleased to know what you think about this issue. > > > What priority should it be for future releases? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > jadmin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jadmin > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
