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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">We have around 400 machines spread between two sites on a private network. We are looking at spread to provide failure detection among other things. The documentation seems to indicate that spread cannot handle large group sizes. However, a change log has the text below.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Will spread work with this number of machines?</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">"</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Enhance the group membership algorithm so very large groups and very large numbers of groups will be merged correctly during a membership. With this change Spread should correctly handle groups with thousands of members and thousands of groups. This also includes the optimization of sending groups messages as FIFO and AGREED instead of SAFE. Thanks to Ryan Caudy from Hopkins for doing this work.</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">"</FONT></P>
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