Server One handle website Server Two is a light version of tomcat wich handle Lucene Search
In front, a lighttpd which use server two for /search, and server one for all others things You can add lucene server with round robin in lighttpd with this scheme. Careful with fault tolerance and index replication. M. Chun Wei Ho a écrit : > Hi, > > We are currently running a Tomcat web application serving searches > over our Lucene index (10GB) on a single server machine (Dual 3GHz > CPU, 4GB RAM). Due to performance issues and to scale up to handle > more traffic/search requests, we are getting another server machine. > > We are looking at two ways of scaling: > (1) duplicating the web application and index on the second machine > and load-balancing incoming users between the two servers. > > (2) modifying our web application so that one machine will host our > web application (and associated MySQL database), while the other one > will host the Lucene index. The first machine would be dedicated to > our web application and database, while the second becomes our > dedicated Lucene search server. When users perform a search on the > website, the web application will send the request to the Lucene index > server, which will perform the search and return the results to the > web application. > > We would like comments from users who have set up similar systems on > how you have accomplished (1) in your setups, and whether (2) is a > good choice for scaling. > > > Attached is a more complete RTF document outlining our architecture > and proposal. We appreciate your perusal and comments. > > Regards, > CW > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
