[Spread-users] reliable messages

[John Lane Schultz]

You can also point Google at the archive by using the "site" feature.  For
example, search for: "site:lists.spread.org flow control". 

On your original questions, 

(1) Spread does not save messages for retransmission across group membership
changes -- if your daemon (or client) drops out for whatever reason, Spread
will not auto-magically recover messages for process that it missed while it
was gone.

(2) A reliable message means that so long as the group membership does not
change, then Spread will recover and deliver this message to all group
members (i.e. - overcome intermittent network packet losses).  The virtual
synchrony property defines what happens to a reliable message around the
time of a (network) membership change.  Basically, processes that go through
the same membership changes will deliver all the same reliable messages.

(3) The Spread project is very stable and the mailing list is quite active.
New releases occur based on demand for new features and when issues are
found.  We are working on a new release for the not so distant future to
address roll over, dynamic reconfig. issues and some minor bugs that have
been brought to light.

Cheers!

---
John Lane Schultz
Spread Concepts LLC
Phn: 443 838 2200 

-----Original Message-----
From: spread-users-bounces at lists.spread.org
[mailto:spread-users-bounces at lists.spread.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Curdt
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:55 AM
To: Glenn McAllister
Cc: spread-users at lists.spread.org
Subject: Re: [Spread-users] reliable messages


On Jun 6, 2008, at 17:38, Glenn McAllister wrote:

> Torsten Curdt wrote:
>>> I think you haven't received much support so far because  
>>> everything you've asked is (I believe) covered in the docs and in  
>>> the mailing list archives.
>> If so I must have missed that in the docs. As for the archives -  
>> they are not searchable.
>> http://commedia.cnds.jhu.edu/pipermail/spread-users/
>> You are not suggesting that users should go through years of  
>> messages thread by thread - do you?
>
> Nope.  From the spread website, they provide a link to GMane
(http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.spread.user 
> ), which allows you to search the archive.

After you pointed it out I found the link. Thanks!

Most links do point to http://lists.spread.org/pipermail/spread-users/  
though.

>  You can also try http://marc.info/?l=spread-users&r=1&w=2. It has  
> searching capabilities as well as browsing.  Not the prettiest  
> interface, but it works.

Maybe worth creating a new page for "Mailing Lists" and link all 3  
archives from there.

cheers
--
Torsten

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