On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:50:15PM -0700, Henri Asseily wrote: > This is somewhat OT, but I need an answer from within the DBI community: > > I want to release a new DBIx module, DBIx::HA (for High Availability).
What will it do, and how? > In this module I need to do some work on shared memory segments. What > Perl module is most in use to do that? i.e. which module should I > support? > I was thinking about IPC::ShareLite. Is that one the "best" in terms of > distribution, or are other ones more ubiquitous? > What about IPC::Shareable? There are many to consider, including IPC::MM and others. There was a talk by Perrin Harkins at this years Perl Conference http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2801 that compared and benchmarked many of the modules - it was a good, well designed, review that considered many issues people would often forget. Sadly his presentation isn't online here http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/presentations.html so I've CC'd Perrin in the hope that he'll post a url for it. Tim.
