On 2002.10.11, Jerry Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we have 300 servers and they did something dumb (like our client > has demanded/requested) and they each heartbeat each other then each > has to handle 300 connections per second just for a heartbeat. And > each has to make 300 connections to send its heartbeat to the other > systems. That might be a considerable chunk of the max connections a > system might handle, and that doesn't include other messages we may > wish to pass around involving state information. And none of that > includes any of the actual client requests.
If it's not critical to receive every single heartbeat, then just use UDP. Connectionless, fire-and-forget, lower overhead ... During times of heavy traffic, you might lose some packets. But, is that critical? From the sounds of it, probably not. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
