On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:14:25PM -0800, Adesanya, Adeyemi wrote: > > Hi Jason. > > I know that multicasting is a very convenient way of sending data to > multiple recipients but I'd like some tighter control. Less network > traffic is always preferred and thought of all those nodes (maybe > > 100???) multicasting really concerns me. I'd like to designate > 'collectors/concentrators' for each cluster and instruct monitored > nodes to only send their data to their specific concentrators and > nowhere else.
The traffic on our 160 node cluster isn't really noticeable. Unless you have a real performance problem, worrying about this is premature optimization. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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