i understand. Thats exactly what I am I am going with ease of implementation.
the list of files would be obtained using "the files" function of livecode ..... from a mapped drive on a LAN. Thats what I am thinking......... it should all be ok ...... i hope the OS caches to memory the folder lists that are most often read. I'm gonna give it a shot using this file system method rather than another database. my problem is being able to stress and scale test my system ..... i just don't know how to simulate network conditions ... it all works perfect with 10 people on 2 machines........but after that .....who knows...... i'm gonna find out thats for sure. Thanks for everyone's input. On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > So you would be using sockets to send a list of 1 or more file names > (notifications) across the network to other computers? > > If so, I am not sure there is any significant performance difference > than having the notifications in a database. > > The only practical difference may be the ease of implementation > depending of your expertise with SQL databases or not. > > Since I assume it is your application that will received file lists from > other computers and write them to a user notification folder as well as > fetch 'the files' from that folder to check for messages, I don't think > you could ever run into any issues where the directory is being written > to at the same time it is being read. Even if, the OS essentially > handles that for you. > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://post.spmailt.com/f/a/hI4G8NOrME9mw6gmqg5QqA~~/AAGp3AA~/RgRbf2ZPP0EIACzK-jOm_mFXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQdoZWxsb18xYAw1Mi4zOS4yNi4xNDRCCgAAzzKeWXglR4hSHXVzZS1saXZlY29kZUBsaXN0cy5ydW5yZXYuY29tCVEEAAAAAEQ1aHR0cDovL2xpc3RzLnJ1bnJldi5jb20vbWFpbG1hbi9saXN0aW5mby91c2UtbGl2ZWNvZGVHAnt9 > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode