[Spread-users] spread configuration

[Jonathan Stanton]

The segment config should match the physical topology. Any client can 
connect to any daemon. Once it has connected, it can do any operation 
(join group, multicast messages, etc). Clients connected to different 
daemons will can also join groups and if they are in the same group all of 
the clients will receive the messages sent to that group -- no matter 
which daemon they are connected to.

The reason to have multiple daemons is for more efficient multicasting.

Each segment can have upto around 100 daemons. However, most people 
recommend you keep each segment to less then 30-50 daemons in order to 
experience good latency and avoid membership instability (when daemons 
quit or are started). 

Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:54:17PM -0800, kevin Tian wrote:
> Hi, all
> I am not clear the segment configuration.(BTW I have
> read the users guide)
> That is a physical topology, is it right?
> According to my understanding, any clients can connect
> to a daemon to multicast(not necessarily join the
> group) if we do not consider the authentication. 
> Then what do other procs do in the segment
> configuration?
> And how many daemons can one segment have? 
> 
> Please help.
> Thanks:-)

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Jonathan R. Stanton         jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science   
Johns Hopkins University    
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