[AusNOG] So who's read an RFC or Internet Draft?

[Philip Loenneker]

Thanks Peter and Will. Yes, the load balancer is a single point where data passes, and has the vertical scaling issue. We have multiple load balancers for redundancy, but that does not increase capacity. 

As for MySQL, that is a cluster (currently 3 servers) with all servers accepting inserts and syncing with each other. Unfortunately adding more servers won't reduce the load from data syncs - in fact adding more servers increases the sync load, while reducing the client connection load - I haven't investigated which has more impact. We couldn't think of a way around that.

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> Mark is referring to the  load balancer, which while its load is less - has a finite capacity.

I should clarify, it has very little overhead to perform its function versus the collectors.


- Will