Re: [cobalt-users] To many users make authentification slow ideas?

[Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:26:53 +0100, P Lindsey mumbled something like:
>>We have 20,950 users on a raq4i 

Holy load, Batman!
I once saw Jeff Lovell say that 4,000 mailing list users would "crush 
a Raq".
I would SERIOUSLY consider getting another server - or ten - and 
splitting up these users between servers.

If you're getting 6-minute authentication times, aren't your users 
leaving in droves? It would take me about two days to lose my 
patience with that kind of stuff, and I'd be leaving quickly.

>>needed. The hard thing is cobalt said there would be no problem
>>with that
>>many users as Yahoo uses them.

Yahell (as I like to call them) switched to vanilla boxes a long, 
long time ago... probably because they were experiencing the same 
troubles you're having.
Unless they've switched back, in which case my knowledge needs 
updating. :)
In either case - did they say that Yahoo puts THAT MANY users on one 
machine? Or just that "Yahoo uses them"? Perhaps Yahoo (if they're 
still using our little blue buddies) keeps the load down to a few 
thousand users per server; I *do* know that they have a serious 
load-balancing solution in place - something it sounds like you 
really need (yesterday).
--
CarrieB
Thanks for your quotes!
I'm now trying to find a way to randomize them automagically so I can 
use them all...