[OSM-dev] [Moved to dev] New hardware for servers

[Nick Black]

Pulled this onto dev.



On 7/3/07, Yann <yann.hamon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >> Let me ask you, and more generally, the community, what would
> > >> people like to see money being spent on (both large and small
> > >> items) that would most help the project?
> > >
> > > I would love to see a second database server which replicates data
> > > from the #1 database server (only "current" tables) and serves all
> > > read requests from there. Only write requests should go to the #1
> > > database server. I hope that this will considerably increase
> > > performance and enable us to allow larger bounding boxes and more
> > > elements for downloading. The whole thing could also be the first
> > > step to wider replication.
> >
> > I believe that the web server, and the general horribleness of
> > rails and libxml2 for this particular task, are just as much of
> > a bottleneck here as the database, if not more.
> >
> > Is MySQL replication "real time" enough for this by the way? In
> > other words if I do a download from a slave is what I get going
> > to be good enough to base an upload to the master on?
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> Hello, looking at the munin stats, I think there are several points where
> the configuration of mysql and apache could be improved; is there a
> sys-admin mailing list for openstreetmap? Who should I talk to to get
> involved there? I sent two mails to steve, but they stay unanswered :(
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> Yann Hamon
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