On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:18 AM, S.A.<qmt...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> ... >> > We started with 30 concurrent users and there was no >> trouble, >> > but when the next batch of 70 users hit concurrently, >> we could >> > not serve all the users. >> > >> Just a note for now. The above is an important part, >> and maybe you should have started your initial post with >> that information. >> It shows that you have a running system, that you have >> tried your application, and that you have already seen a >> problem. >> I know it is a matter of presentation, but it puts >> everything in a different light and is more likely to >> attract attention and helpful responses, than the way you >> presented your initial post, which looked more like you were >> looking for theoretical answers to hypothetical questions. >> > > May be I should have. I was debating between a long post > and a summary and in the interest of time, tried to post > what I was looking for. > >> > >> > We have about about 10 set of 50 pages and each page >> containing >> > varying number of images (on an average 45 images of >> about 2KB >> > and about 50 or so 0.5KB images) and an occasional >> multi-media >> > file. For this discussion, we can ignore the >> multi-media file. >> > The page content and the sequence of page presentation >> is >> > user dependent, but for a group of users this 50 page >> set >> > is constant. With each request we do updates on 3 >> mysql tables. >> > >> The last sentence is also something worth investigating. >> Such as : is the bottleneck at the level of the images, or >> at the level of the mysql accesses ? >> > > The reason why I am not suspecting mysql was that the mysql > log does indicate that it is getting all the requests and > it is servicing them. As I have stated before, some of the > users though are not getting images. > >> ... >> > Our eventual objective is to serve about 200,000 users >> (of >> > course not with our existing hardware) and we are >> looking >> > at various options. >> >> That is also a good number to give, as it gives a measure >> of the goal. >> ... >> > >> > We have definitely a problem and looking at various >> options >> > to resolve it. >> >> My first reaction to the above would be that yes, you do >> have a problem. If you cannot serve the kind of >> content you mention for 70 users, with the hardware you >> mention, then something seems definitely amiss. >> >> I cannot imagine that you could have a problem serving 70 >> clients simultaneously, with pages containing 45 images of 2 >> KB each. >> >> My gut feeling tells me that you may have a concurrency >> problem at the level of your mysql accesses. >> >> Would it be possible, for instance, to replace the mysql >> accesses by some static content fetched from disk (for >> example, 1 distinct text file for each of your client-ids, >> the name being client-id driven) ? >> And then see if you have a problem ? > > There is very little data that gets served to the user from > mysql. We use mysql to maintain statistics on what content > user is accessing and the sequence in which the info is > presented as the order matters to us. So, it is predominantly > updates that we do to the mysql. Of course, updates are more > latency intense than reads, yet those operations seem to > get thru. > >> The reason for that gut feeling is that you wrote somewhere >> that you can serve up to a certain number of clients fine, >> but when increasing the number, you hit a wall. >> > > We have looked at mysql aspect and will continue to look > at it. Hardware is another issue we need to resolve and > then may be memcached. > > Thank you again for your responses. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
This might not be an option if image access varies based on privilege of user (or if every user has unique images), but have you considered using a spritemap for the images? 50 http requests can be non-trivial. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
