Re: redirection

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:31:41AM -0400, wheelerj@lexmark.com wrote:
>
> >Alex Besogonov wrote....
> >You can use mod_proxy, so your server will act just like a proxy
> >between repository server and clients (you can even set up
> >caching :) ). The other way is to use Squid in httpd-acceleration
> >mode.
[snip]
>
> A reverse proxy seems to be working. The only question I would have
> is how much load is being placed on the proxy. For example, let's say
> I have 10 servers each hosting a repository and each repository has
> 10G of code. If 10 users simultaneously do svn checkout, do all the
> requests flow back through the single proxy server or do the
> individual repository servers send the data back directly to the
> originating clients?
[snip]

The traffic will all go back through the proxy, but the proxy will not
be reading/writing Berkeley DB files or calculating differences etc. It
would just be relaying packets back and forth, so it should handle 10
users just fine, I should think.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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