[Xapian-discuss] DFS solution

[Lucian Nicolescu]

Is there some documentation on xapian-tcpsrv? Sounds interesting ...

Thanks,
Lucian Nicolescu  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olly Betts [mailto:olly at survex.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:54 PM
> To: Lucian Nicolescu
> Cc: 'Xapian Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] DFS solution
> 
> 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
>