HW/SW for license server

[Valery Reznic]

Thank you Didi.

I'll keep it in mind.

Valery.




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>From: Yedidyah Bar-David <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org>
>To: Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:16 PM
>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
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>On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:19:51AM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote:
>> Hi, All.
>> 
>> I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software to use
>> 
>> 
>> General schema is following:
>> 
>> There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) query license server for license via https
>> 
>> I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,
>> spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec
>> 
>> When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 small fields, generate license and return it to client.
>> 
>> License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds bytes)
>> 
>> I think use following software for it
>> 
>> 
>> 1. CentOS 6
>> 
>> 2. Apache with mod_python
>> 3. Mysql
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>Just a short note - make sure you configure mysql to do query caching.
>google for 'mysql query cache'. It wasn't on by default in centos5, I
>did not check 6 yet. It has, just as any cache, the potential to improve
>performance dramatically.
>-- 
>Didi
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