--On Friday, August 9, 2002 2:06 PM +0300 Kalle Marjola
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Stipe Tolj wrote:
>
>> > How many of you really use the feature of independent smsbox in
>> > different machine than the bearerbox? (or several smsboxes). Just
>> > thinking about the old 'thread smsbox' which was in old Kannel...
>>
>> we do, at least in some extend. Are you planing to incorporate smsbox
>> as bearerbox thread?!
>
> Well, several threads... (and this is just speculation. Last time the
> idea was torpedoed down because of load distribution reasons, after I
> have done some tests etc.)
>
>> If yes, we dislike this because of several reasons, one of them is the
>> abilitiy to make config changes 'on-the-fly' to smsbox related groups,
>> while bearerbox is still running.
>
> Do you have some nifty way to take smsbox down for that use, so that no
> messages are lost while they are being transfered between bearerbox and
> smsbox? (or open http connections)
(pure speculating here) A way could be to have the smsbox doing some
gracefull restart by reading the configuration while the connections
(sockets) stay connected. Then messages would get queue up. Unless
the restart takes very long you would no loose messages. Not sure how
the timing/speed is for this.
>
> Dynamic configuration loading is doable (been there...), so what
> are those other reasons?
> (it is amazing how much it simplifies things to have smsbox in same
> process. And makes Kannel much faster)
Just curious, but what about the wapbox?? Would that go faster too??
Yes, dynamic configuration is possible via various ways, SNMP, HTTP
or even just some kind of gracefull restart that reads the configuration
and setups the new environment.
>
> (for distribution, the possibility to run distinct smsbox could be left,
> too, alhought I do not see much use for that...)
Only when the load can go so sky high that a singl machine cannot keep up
Harrie
Internet Management Consulting
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