In the CMS that I've designed for my last company, we had a "read-only cluster" solution. So we had just one edit-server that allowed people to change content and some other nodes that got notified when content changed. So this is a simple solution if you want to achieve high performance read access (we used this for a large customer with very high web traffic). If you want to achieve a fail-safe edit scenario where content can be edited at each node everything is getting much more complicated (and much slower). So I think it would make no big difference in performance if the clustering is achieved by using one backend or by transaction-aware notifications. But would be nice to have a real edit-cluster without the need of a db... Cheers, Daniel
"Slide Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 24.11.04 19:05:22: > > > Can anyone speculate as to how any of these distributed caches actually > perform though? I'm wondering how much overhead the network communication > between cluster participants introduces and whether a many-to-one > (slide-to-filesystem) design using an NFS mounted filesystem wouldn't be > just as fast as a many-to-many design where each slide has its own > filesystem. > > Warwick > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Emberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:40 AM > > To: Slide Users Mailing List > > Subject: Re: slide clustering support question > > > > > > Build your own or use whats out there. For Slide to have > > top-grade clustering either Slide must invest the time and > > effort to develop such a system or just use existing > > libraries that provide such capabilities. I would think that > > the correct approach is to build on whats out there, > > specifically, JGroups which has a distinguished academic > > pedigree, rich computer science heritage and significant > > usage. JGroups has distributed hashtables, distributed lock > > management, and, very appealing, group membership can be > > determined dynamically - one does not have to know every > > member of the group when the whole cluster starts. > > > > Slide might have to be refactored some so that the clustering > > implementation is an addon and the main Slide code can > > compile and run without the JGroups jar file. But for those > > who wish to use Slide where clustering is a must, either for > > performance or failover, then the clustering implementation > > with its dependence on JGroups would have to be compiled and loaded. > > > > Example usages: > > JBoss uses JGroups. > > CJDBC uses JGroups. > > > > Richard > > > > > > Warwick Burrows wrote: > > > We've implemented that configuration: a jdbc nodestore with tx > > > filesystem store much like you've outlined with a HTTP load > > balancer > > > between our DAV clients and Slide servers. It is untested in this > > > target (load balanced) configuration but we have tested in > > a simpler > > > configuration that shares the jdbc store and the content > > (using NFS) > > > between two Slide servers. > > > > > > Unfortunately the clustering implementation is untested in terms of > > > how locking will work. Ie. when a lock is taken by one client a > > > notification is sent to the other servers in the cluster to > > let them > > > know that this object has changed. But its not certain what will > > > happen if two requests for the lock come in at exactly the > > same time > > > as they would both take the lock and send a notification off to the > > > other clustered servers. I believe that there's no code to resolve > > > this issue. > > > > > > So for our deployment we've gone with disabling the cache for the > > > nodestore altogether so that updates for locks and other > > metadata are > > > written directly to the db. The content store also has its cache > > > disabled right now as it seems that caching for both node > > and content > > > stores is controlled from the encompassing <store> definition. > > > > > > So far we think it will meet our particular performance > > requirements > > > even with the caches disabled. A fully distributed cache (and so > > > lock-safe) cache would be great but the question is would > > it be more > > > performant than just writing directly to the db?... > > particularly when > > > you consider that any negotiation for the lock that would need to > > > occur between cluster caches would be over the network and > > subject to > > > network latency. Anyone have any ideas as to how distributed caches > > > actually perform in the real world? > > > > > > Warwick > > > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: Alessandro Apostoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:28 AM > > >>To: Slide Users Mailing List > > >>Subject: slide clustering support question > > >> > > >> > > >>I have a couple questions about the clustering features of > > >>slide, suppose a scenario where you have a distributed > > >>replicated filesystem such as coda and a replicated db > > >>running on each node. Each node has the same data both on > > >>filesystem and db, the nodes are part of a big wan with links > > >>speed around 2 Mbit. The idea would be to use slide tx store > > >>for resources and revisions whilst using a jdbc store for > > >>properties, users, groups, roles and security > > >>1) In such a scenario how would the locks on the filesystem > > >>behave, I guess that the transaction support in the > > >>commons.transaction.file package would be broken for there > > >>would be two or more instances of FileResourceManager > > >>accessing the same directory or am I missing something ? > > >>2) For ideal clustering support would I be confined to the > > JDBC store? > > >>3) If the Tx Store still works in this configuration how does slide > > >>solve the > > >>above distributed transaction problem? > > >> > > >>Alessandro > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------- > > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended > > recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. 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