[Xapian-discuss] DFS solution

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:54:11PM +0300, Lucian Nicolescu wrote:
> I have such a solution in mind to solve high traffic issues:
> - set up xmlrpc servers that communicate with the xapian db and can be
> queried from any programming language
> - balance the xmlrpc servers using pen (http://siag.nu/pen/) - from what I
> read and heard this might scale just fine (uses round robin to balance
> requests and detects failed services from the pool automatically).

You could just balance over servers running xapian-tcpsrv and avoid the
need to implement the xmlrpc layer.

Cheers,
    Olly