[Kde-games-devel] Server Load balancing for GGZ

[Kleag]

Hello,

Where is the transcript of this meeting ? I'm not able to find it. Maybe 
should the transcripts be systematicaly linked from the IRC meeting Wiki 
page ?

Bye.

Kleag
Le dimanche 3 décembre 2006 02:41, Mathieu Jobin a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty excited to see most KDE games supported on the GGZ networking
> plateform. I think it was missing and using the already working and stable
> GGZ plateform is a great idea. I've read through the Games meeting of
> friday night (which happened to be saturday morning at 4am for me) anyway.
> I remember seeing that it is good to take on a technology that already
> works for gnome. but even though gnome started using GGZ as well. GGZ have
> KDE applications listed on kde-apps already for a quite a while. so as Java
> applet, SDL games and more. so yes its good to be working all together but
> saying "we are going with what works for gnome" is a little misleading I
> believe. I prefer thinking that both Gnome and KDE are going toward what is
> working for everyone already. GGZ.
>
> thus said. I am a bit worried about potential server issues once many KDE
> games supports GGZ. I have no idea. it might not be an issue at all. But I
> believe we should plan ahead. (Vaut mieux prevenir que guerir). Does the
> server code would have to be modified to enable load balancing? or it could
> be done simply with tunnels and other networking tricks?
>
> ideally, it should work a bit like IRC. people can connect to any server
> but endup together on the same network.
>
> or am I worrying for nothing, and bandwidth and CPU usage is really not an
> issue on the current GGZ server?
>
> thanks for considering
>
> Mathieu

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