<DIV>Thank you,</DIV>
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<DIV>Just so I understand the design better, what is gained by using more than one spread daemon? If I have a lan with say 200 processes communicating through spread, some on the same machines, how many spread daemons should I run and why?</DIV>
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<DIV>-pp</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ryan Caudy <rcaudy@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">You seem to understand this correctly. The set of spread daemons<BR>(identified by hostname/ip address) must be known when the daemons are<BR>started. The limit of 128 spread daemons (#define'd as<BR>MAX_PROCS_RING) is fixed at compile-time -- you might be able to make<BR>some changes to this, but I'm not sure if anyone has done so, and<BR>there may be complications that I can't think of off the top of my<BR>head. As far as I know, there aren't currently plans to change<BR>Spread's functionality in these respects.<BR><BR>One thing to consider is that the 128 limit is a limit of the number<BR>of daemons -- the number of clients is a large multiple of this. <BR>Also, you can run more than one Spread network on an overlapping set<BR>of machines -- they simply must use different ports, or different<BR>multicast/broadcast addresses.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Ryan<BR><BR><BR>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005
18:46:54 -0800 (PST), pedro smith <UND_PEP@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>> Hi there, <BR>> <BR>> I just found Spread and I am very interested in learning more about its<BR>> capabilities. I am considering using something like spread in a financial<BR>> system. However I am worried about two issues. First, it seems that the list<BR>> of machines participating in a spread segment must be know at system boot<BR>> time. Is this right? Would I have to reinitialize every spread daemon in the<BR>> system to add a new machine? Second, do I understand correctly that there is<BR>> a hard limit of 128 machines in a spread network? If so, are there any ways<BR>> around this limit, perhaps by bridging separate networks? <BR>> <BR>> Thanks in advance for any help, <BR>> <BR>> -pp <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ________________________________<BR>> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>> Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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