On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 13:33 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Bryan, > > I'm on the road, apologies if I'm a bit succint... > > - 400 users are unlikely to be online at the same time, supporting > all users online at the same time will stress all the infra, so the > path to success is, I suspect, paved with strategies to define usage > patterns that avoid clustering everyone at the same time.
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" > - I am working on 0.6 which will let you partition the school -- > instead of @online@, large schools can set moodle+ejabberd in a mode > where users are in a shared-roster-group defined by their course > membership in moodle. I've posted on the list and written in the wiki > about this before if you need more detail. > > - More users - more RAM to the server :-) and disk space for backups we can provide that > - Do you really have a low latency / high bw conn between the schools > and the location with the XS? I have the feeling we had this > conversation before... :-) and I suggested smaller and local, which is > how the XS is designed to work. That's still my recommendation... The XS is quite a complicated ensemble of software having an XS at every school magnifies the administration work. Having a centralized XS for several schools can dramatically reduce administrative overhead. Additionally our schools only have about 8 hours of electricity per day. I am concerned about the XS losing power suddenly multiple times per day. We have a relatively low latency connection b/w the schools and the XS. We have discussed these issues before and I believe that we both came to the conclusion that Nepal has different requirements than some of the other pilot schools. -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
