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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:17:44 -0800
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I realize this is discussion is over, but i did want to make one quick 
clarification. when we talk about ensembles, we are talking about the 
servers that make up the zookeeper service. we refer to the servers that 
use the zookeeper service as clients. we have systems here that use 
ensembles of five servers to provide zookeeper service to thousands of 
client servers without problem.

ben

Chad Harrington wrote:
> Clearly Zookeeper can handle ensembles of a dozen or so servers.  How large
> an ensemble can one build with Zookeeper?  100 servers?  10,000 servers?
> Are there limitations that make the system unusable at large numbers of
> servers?
>
> Thanks,
>
>