On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > There are some zones that have way too few servers for way too many clients so they basically never get to work. Someone joins the zone and in short order they get kicked out or leave because there’s just too many queries. When there are no servers in the zone the queries from that country (mostly) fall back up to the continent zone. > > In the past we had a few zones that were in a similar situation and some of you had your servers outside that country added to the country zone. > > I’m thinking of making this more automated, so when there are too few servers in a country, add some (random-ish) servers from the rest of the region or even the world. > > We could have a special flag that designates a server to be used in this situation, but for now I’m thinking to just use “specified netspeed is over X” as the flag indicating that you don’t mind extra queries from outside your country (or maybe even region).
This is a good idea. After my little AWS instance in Brazil was being crippled by load, a burlier box I had outside of Brazil was manually put in the .br zone, and has been able to soak up about 1,800 queries/second. Resource usage is still relatively low, so I'd be happy to help with some other zones, having seen how frustrating it can be to be in an underserved zone. Estimating load may be trickier than it seems. The AWS instance is at 10 Mbps and averages 2,800 qps. The other box is set to 100 Mbps but only gets 1,800/second. I confess that I don't entirely understand why this is. -- Matt _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
