On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:09:22PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:42:13 -0400 > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > > We already have servers, and bandwidth, and it would seem to could > > create a small, stable irc network that could handle our modest load > > of ~700 concurrent clients. I don't know how well irc scales; could > > a single server handle that load? > > Yeah. You're talking about what we refer to as a 'leaf' node. ie: a > server that primarily handles end-user traffic. > > Hubs are much less bandwidth-intensive than leaf nodes, because they > don't have to repeat a message once for each user that receives the > message (think channels). Leaf nodes will end up replicating a lot of > messages and sending them out, but it's pretty unavoidable at the > moment. It's unavoidable, period. Those clients need to receive the data. (Other daemons are less discriminate, but dancer-ircd 1.0 almost never replicates unnecessary messages). > Anyhoo, a T1 could typically handle that many users without breaking a > sweat. Hardware-wise, something very modest (think P233 or so) could > handle it. That's bottom-end hardware for a server on that scale, even with a highly efficient daemon. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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