scaling and node.js [#2618076]

1. hi how does this scale to large user bases.
2. can you make comparisons with node.js drupal chat modules?
3. do you plan to use node.js at any time in the future.

i ask because as i understand node.js scales really well for large user bases and im interested into how an AJAX based solution performs.

thanks

laurence

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Comment #1

18 November 2015 at 13:50

laurencefass created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

Syntapse CreditAttribution: Syntapse as a volunteer commented 18 November 2015 at 13:55

"Chatroom is aimed primarily at tight integration with Drupal, not at being a highly scalable IRC or XMPP style solution".

What is the optimum amount (range) of users to use to get the most out of chatroom module?

Comment #3

glekli CreditAttribution: glekli commented 18 November 2015 at 15:52

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Hi,

I think that quote is outdated; it refers to the D6 version, which uses ajax polling. That technology is not suitable for high-scale chats. I haven't done performance testing, but my sense is that about 15-30 concurrent users could easily overload an average server.

The D7 version does rely on node.js, and that should be able to scale far beyond that. Compared to Drupal Chat module, they should be comparable in terms of performance.