"number of proxy servers should be proportional to the number of clients" - I hate to be pedantic but this is a very general statement. Can you be more specific? Should the proportion be 1:1 or 5:1? What factors affect the ratio?
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
