Re: Massive Number of Concurrent Users
From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:25:16 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sb9Ur7DogWjr1N24y7vyXSNuVj_Y2uGwa37ONQYZJQpTw_at_mail.gmail.com>
Oh yes, we have > 70,000 human users of a custom access control app on commodity single instance Intel across several sites < 5. It's lots of very short well segregated transactions (think "can I see this?") so if your workload works then several small servers can do a fine job. On Jun 8, 2012 5:56 PM, "Dave" <user4test_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone on the list who has worked with a concurrent peak
> user load in the thousands (1000 - 5000) would mind sharing some nuggets on
> the hardware they used to support such a load. The load would come from an
> OLTP (80/20 r/w) web application using JBOSS application pools to the
> Oracle 11gR2 Ent database. I've been doing some research looking at
> powerful systems capable of supporting 80 Intel cores per system and
> connecting that with some PCIe Flash Memory for the L2 cache (flash cache)
> as well as using shared storage into a RamSan-630 via FC in order to
> maximize the use of the CPU cores and fast I/O. This would likely be a RAC
> scenario with two like servers. By the way, I am aware of how relatively
> "cheap" (cough) the hardware is compared to the millions in Oracle
> licensing this will cost. Still, I suspect the entire thing will be
> cheaper overall than an Exadata x2-8 system.
> Thanks!
>
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:25:16 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sb9Ur7DogWjr1N24y7vyXSNuVj_Y2uGwa37ONQYZJQpTw_at_mail.gmail.com>
Oh yes, we have > 70,000 human users of a custom access control app on commodity single instance Intel across several sites < 5. It's lots of very short well segregated transactions (think "can I see this?") so if your workload works then several small servers can do a fine job. On Jun 8, 2012 5:56 PM, "Dave" <user4test_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone on the list who has worked with a concurrent peak
> user load in the thousands (1000 - 5000) would mind sharing some nuggets on
> the hardware they used to support such a load. The load would come from an
> OLTP (80/20 r/w) web application using JBOSS application pools to the
> Oracle 11gR2 Ent database. I've been doing some research looking at
> powerful systems capable of supporting 80 Intel cores per system and
> connecting that with some PCIe Flash Memory for the L2 cache (flash cache)
> as well as using shared storage into a RamSan-630 via FC in order to
> maximize the use of the CPU cores and fast I/O. This would likely be a RAC
> scenario with two like servers. By the way, I am aware of how relatively
> "cheap" (cough) the hardware is compared to the millions in Oracle
> licensing this will cost. Still, I suspect the entire thing will be
> cheaper overall than an Exadata x2-8 system.
> Thanks!
>
>
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