[Spread-users] max number of groups and max length of group name
Ryan Caudy
caudy at jhu.edu
Thu Mar 4 11:11:06 EST 2004
Hi,
Spread can scale well to many thousands of groups. There is no maximum
in terms of what the code can handle -- the constraint is memory size.
In terms of performance impact of having a large number of groups, there
are two considerations: (1)For simple message delivery, the list is
searched (for each non-private group the message is sent to) at a cost
of one lookup in a skiplist that stores all the groups information...
so, expected lg(n) time; (2)After a daemon membership change, there may
be additional computational and network costs incurred per-group.
The maximum length of a group name can be increased. You'll need to
change the header files spread_params.h (for daemon code's information)
and sp.h (for the library code). A recompile will, of course, be
needed. Some people have run into bus errors after doing this, but as
far as I know this is fixed in CVS and should be out with 3.17.2. In
terms of performance, there will be higher memory and network usage for
group names, proportional to the change you make. Lookup to deliver
messages might take slightly longer, but I doubt that this will be a
significant cost (unless you make the names huge). If you send to lots
of groups, you might cause messages to be split more often by the
network layers of spread (or at the lower level, by routers)... also,
more internal spread messages may be necessary during daemon membership
change.
Cheers,
Ryan
Jim Vickroy wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I apologize if these questions have been previously answered, but I was
> unable to download the mailing list archive (page not available).
>
> I have the following questions:
>
> (1) What is the maximum number of simultaneous groups that Spread can
> accomodate?
>
> (2) Can the maximum length of a group name be increased beyond the
> 32-character limit? If so, how? Recompile? Are there adverse impacts on
> performance of doing so?
>
> Thanks for you assistnece,
>
> jim vickroy
>
>
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Ryan W. Caudy
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
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