On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Stu Hood <stu.h...@rackspace.com> wrote: >>> The HH code currently tries to send the hints to nodes other than the >>> natural endpoints. If small-scale performance is a problem, we could >>> make the natural endpoints be responsible for the hints. This reduces >>> durability a bit, but might be a decent tradeoff. >> The other interesting benefit is that the hint would not need to store the >> actual content of the change, since the natural endpoints will already be >> storing copies. The hints would just need to encode the fact that a given >> (key,name1[,name2]) changed. > > Right, I think that's what Ryan was getting at.
Indeed. Like I said, this change only helps with the "surprising effects on a small cluster" problem, but if that's enough, perhaps we should do it. -ryan
