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

[Andrew Jones]

Presumably multiple load-balancers could be added, perhaps using 
anycast, to scale out the that layer. Obviously that wouldn't help the 
database - you'd have to look into horizontally partitioning the 
database, I'd imagine.



On 12.10.2015 12:50, Philip Loenneker wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> 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
>
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