Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect to the AP right now, you may overwhelm ejabberd Give ejabberd enough RAM and it won't be a problem. The rest

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:36 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect to the AP right now, you may overwhelm ejabberd

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Dev Mohanty
Bryan I assume, this is in reference with the deployment planned at the new schools, and guess am more then familiar with admin workload and power limitations you happen to mention in Nepal. Hence was wondering if you've looked into the option of using more then one XS, installed at the same

[Server-devel] XO's get bogged down w/ chatter (was Re: Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS )

2009-03-08 Thread Bryan Berry
I just want to reiterate the following because I have gotten several e-mails suggesting solutions to scaling the XS. The Dell server handles this problem fine. I expect the MSI wind PC will handle it fine as well. The problem is w/ the ___XO's___ NOT the servers. It is hard for the XO's to keep

[Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-08 Thread Xavier Ziemba
I've been working on configuring an XS server for the Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts and have a couple of questions regarding wireless networking and the XS server. Does the XS software support automatic configuration of PCI wireless cards within the server itself? The documentation

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-08 Thread Dev Mohanty
Hi Xavier, You could also look up the archive at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/networking/ Guess hasn't been very active lately, but then has plenty of info and reference to the wiki. Should get you started and help you with most of your queries. Cheers, Dev On 3/8/09, Xavier Ziemba