[IAEP] Jabber Server

[John Watlington]

Reuben is working on getting jabber.laptop.org back online.
We have no problem hosting a server or two at OLPC, indeed,
we are looking to do so in order to provide realistic tests of the
ejabber server provided with the school server.

Feel free to also set up a school server at a known DNS location, and
publicize it.   It is the easiest way to install and stay current with
the Sugar presence server:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Server_Installation

wad

On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

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> David Farning wrote:
> | Would it be feasible for Sugar Labs to set up jabber servers so that
> | individual deployments have a zero cost mechanism to collaborate  
> among
> | themselves.
>
> Are you referring to Sugar-compatible collaboration servers or generic
> Jabber chat servers?  They are unfortunately far from the same thing.
>
> Last year, OLPC provided a  hosted collaboration server for a time  
> (IIRC)
> at jabber.laptop.org.  Once there were more than about 50 active users
> with B4 machines and emulators, the memory usage of the modified  
> ejabberd
> and general load on the server became so high that the system would  
> crash
> on a regular basis.  The task of solving that problem became  
> Collabora's
> current Gadget system, which is still in development.
>
> Until Gadget is released, public collaboration servers are infeasible
> because the server cannot handle the resulting load.  We could  
> attempt to
> create virtual private servers for various organizations to avoid the
> scaling problems, but we have no access control mechanism, so we would
> merely be hoping that not too many people joined any one server.   
> If they
> did, that server would likely crash, and Sugar is not presently  
> designed
> to handle a server crash in an elegant fashion.
>
> - --Ben
>
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