On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:19:51AM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote: > Hi, All. > > I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software > to use > > > General schema is following: > > There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) > query license server for license via https > > I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse > case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour, > spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec > > When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 small > fields, generate license and return it to client. > > License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds > bytes) > > I think use following software for it > > > 1. CentOS 6 > > 2. Apache with mod_python > 3. Mysql
Just a short note - make sure you configure mysql to do query caching. google for 'mysql query cache'. It wasn't on by default in centos5, I did not check 6 yet. It has, just as any cache, the potential to improve performance dramatically. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
