The number of proxy servers should be proportional to the number of clients.
The proxy can talk to all the tablet servers, but the client of the proxy only has the proxy to make requests on its behalf. As always, it's going to depend on what you want to do, what your schema looks like, and the total number of servers you have. -Eric On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:58 PM, David O'Gwynn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi community, > > I was reading a thread "Error stressing with pyaccumulo app" from > February, and the topic of optimal number of proxy servers for a > cluster of a given size came up. Does anyone have any insight into > that question? Is there a thread in the archive that addresses this > question directly? > > My gut tells me that you should have a number proportional to the > number of tablet servers, but I'm afraid I don't really understand > what the proxy server is doing.
