I need help with setting up a openfire server

Openfire Openfire Support
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Hey,

I have an older unit sitting around that I need to use to setup a chat server for my company. I would need this box to be able to hold around 5k-10k connections at the same time with gateway support using either spectrum or kraken to connect to outside network chat on facebook, yahoo, aim, so on… What i dont know is if it would be possible with the current specs availible to me. and if so how would you go about getting this done. I dont need any video or file sharing but i would also like to possibly use fastpath for live help… I would also like to use jappix mini as the client on my website and any help with it would be great as well…

Specs availible to me at the moment:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core QX9770 Yorkfield 3.2GHz LGA775 136w

Ram: 8GB DDR3 - 2000 (PC16000)

HDD: 2x ADATA XPG SX900 ASX900S3-256GM-C 256GB SATA III MLC (SSD) 550MB/s-Read 530MB/s Write

HDD: 2x Western Digital RE WD3000FYYZ 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

RCC: HighPoint Rocket 640L PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) RAID Controller Card

MB: EVGA 132-YW-E180-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

INS: Average 33.76Mbps Down and 4.87Mbps Up

OS: Ubuntu 12.10 or Ubuntu Server 12.10 x64 or x86

Any help would be awesome, and i’d be very thankful…

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hahaha… 5k-10k with external gateway support. I doubt it would work on that single system.

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I mean I’m not sure what i can push this system to do… Some people report being able to get even more with use of connection managers… But for sake of conversation what can i expect reasonably to be able to get out of a system with those specs and what could you suggest to be able to get the 5k-10k??

Honestly not all users will be given gateway support… i would say only a 3rd will be able to use external gateways…

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That machine just for Openfire it should be fine with some fine tuning, but everything (database, openfire, connection manager) on the same server it’s too much.

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so would it be safe to assume that if i add another machine to the system i can pull it off? I have another amd phenom II quad-core box with 8gb of ram box laying around as well…