app6 up

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:04:35PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Matt Domsch wrote:
> > >so I'm a little late requesting permission, though I was on IRC during
> > >the whole "ordeal" :-) so plenty of people had a chance to object.  I
> > >brought up app6 as a xen guest on telia1.fp.o in Germany.  It's only
> > >running MM's mirrorlist server right now, but all seems fine and
> > >dandy.
> > >
> > That's excellent.  I wonder what the latency for requests is from
> > app6.... (Could make some of the things that J5 is trying to do with
> > myfedora even harder.)
> >
> > Of course, we don't have to run apps that myfedora consumes on app6 but
> > it would be nice to not have to worry about physical geography when an
> > emergency causes us to need to bring up other applications on a
> > different app server.
>
> For those of us in the US, yes, it's higher.  From Europe I suspect
> it's faster for them than it is for us.
>
> Typical responses when hitting app3 and app5 are in the 0.300-0.400s range.
> When hitting app6 I'm seeing around 0.800s.
>
> It's a shame mod_proxy_balancer doesn't grok geoip.  It'd be fun for
> it to default North American users to our US app servers, .EU to
> Telia, with the fallback to use any of the others that are alive...
>
> Anyone up for some coding? :-)
>

WE do need some metrics there though.  Those numbers could be very
interesting.  And I know there's tweaks to openvpn we can do.

	-Mike