I've done this successfully in testing and I know people who have done this in production. Also many modern lisps use OS threads and multi-threaded apps work fine.
Cheers, Ian On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Kevin Raison wrote: > I am curious about this use case for Berkeley DB; can someone confirm > that multiple Lisp images can access a single BDB store without problems? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > On 01/25/2008 03:14 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2008 11:53 AM, Leslie P. Polzer <leslie.pol...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> >>> I know that Elephant is thread-safe. Am I right in that I can also >>> open a store from separate Lisp images? >> >> The postmodern backend is almost optimized for this use case, with its >> globally synced cache. >> >> clsql backend works as well. >> >> bdb backend should work... I had some problems with BDB in this use >> case, but that was some time ago so I don't know the current state. >> >> Note that multiple image access is not tested in the elephant >> testcases. There is code for testing this in the project grand-prix on >> common-lisp.net >> >> /Henrik >> _______________________________________________ >> elephant-devel site list >> elephant-devel@common-lisp.net >> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel > > _______________________________________________ > elephant-devel site list > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
