On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ben Shum <bs...@biblio.org> wrote: > Hi Yamil, > > Wow, that sounds like it would be pretty cool to implement! I'd > definitely be careful about how your policies were configured, circ > transits and hold requests across the ocean might come off a bit > complicated, heh... > > I would worry about latency over such a great distance, wherever your > server isn't, you'd get some slowness. I'm not sure if it's possible to > get better performance if you had Evergreen servers at either end > talking to a single database server. Your performance might still > suffer for the Evergreen frontend server that had further to reach the > database. > > Still, interesting idea! Hope you get more feedback from others on this.
A local transparent caching proxy (tuned specifically to cache just static content, and not the main page or XHR content, that's critical!) could mitigate many of the latency issues. --miker > > -- Ben > > On 11/18/2010 01:01 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I would like some ballpark EG configuration advice from the veterans EG >> users of the list. I am hoping for just a rough idea, and I can provide >> more info on or off the list if necessary about my situation. >> >> I work for a small U.S. music college library, with 58,000 titles and all >> in one building. We are currently planning to migrate to EG sometime after >> next summer, and we have a rough migration plan from ESI. My college has >> plans to create a small study abroad program with 400 students in Spain. >> This future Spain site will include its own small library. I was just >> asked to figure out what additional needs I will have to support this >> remote library using our future Evergreen installation. So far I am >> planning, perhaps naively, of taking a consortia approach of having a >> single EG system. For example, the single system should have separate >> circulation rules and catalogers for each country. Does this approach seem >> reasonable to you guys? >> >> Of the top of your heads, should I stick to the single server I was >> planning to use in the US, or should I plan on getting an additional >> server to live in the US or Spain? In general the US library does not have >> high circulation rates, and that is why ESI recommended only one server >> for a US only library. I also do not expect a lot of circulation activity >> from the library in Spain. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Yamil >> >> P.S. should this be posted to the dev list instead? >> >> >> >> > > -- > Benjamin Shum > Open Source Software Coordinator > Bibliomation, Inc. > 32 Crest Road > Middlebury, CT 06762 > 203-577-4070, ext. 113 > > -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com