It will work fine... and you can run more than one in your cluster if needed.
If you observe a performance problem, please post a ticket to jira. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, David O'Gwynn <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, thanks Eric, that answers my question. It sounds like using the > proxy server for batch_scans and ingest is a bit beyond its scope. Are > there plans for beefing up the proxy to handle a wider range of > purposes from multiple clients? > > Thanks, > David > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> wrote: >> High ingest and batch scans use resources within the proxy for queuing >> data. If I was using a proxy for these activities, I would want to >> have a proxy for each client. Administrative requests, and even basic >> single-range scans are simple pass-throughs with a much lower chance >> of overloading the proxy. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:56 AM, David Medinets >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> "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. >>> >>>
