Or nobody performed load tests using multiple front-ends to a single DB.
 However, I don't understand the difference between this and the
Distributed Entity Cache Clear that Jacques mentioned.  Does DCC maintain
unique sequences?


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jacques,
>
> This may indicate that clustering is not widely used in the OFBiz
> community.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Pierre Smits
>
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> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Le 04/04/2014 18:47, Brett Palmer a écrit :
> >
> >  Ofbiz Users,
> >>
> >> We upgraded our version of OFBiz a few months ago and are running
> through
> >> some performance tests.  We are seeing errors in the
> >> SequenceUtil.getNextSeqId() method when we run load tests with multiple
> >> application servers.  Note: We normally run multiple instances of OFBiz
> >> against the same database in production, but that version of OFBiz is a
> >> couple years old.
> >>
> >> In reviewing the code we are seeing a property called "clustered" that
> >> looks like a possible solution for us.  In the
> SequenceUtil.getNextSeqId()
> >> method it uses a "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE" statement to prevent other
> >> processes
> >> from modifying the record until the transaction is complete.  We have
> set
> >> this property to 'Y' and it has resolved our error, but we want to make
> >> sure we are using the "clustered: property correctly.
> >>
> >>
> >> Here are my questions:
> >>
> >> 1. In general.properties the property is called "cluster" and its set to
> >> "N".  I can't see any reference to a property "cluster" only to the
> >> property "clustered".  I'm assuming this is a typo in the
> >> general.properties file.  Is that correct?
> >>
> >
> > Yes indeed, that's a typo I introduced. I never noticed it, because I
> > always used a DCC https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/
> > Distributed+Entity+Cache+Clear+%28DCC%29+Mechanism in a clustered env.
> > More is explained at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2353?
> > focusedCommentId=13044590
> >
> > Thanks for the typo report. I will fix it. being unnoticed for 3 years,
> it
> > seems it's no much used or people follow the DCC way.
> >
> >
> >  2.  Does the "clustered" property simply mean that multiple OFBiz
> >> application servers are running or does it mean that we need to
> configure
> >> our catalina container as a true cluster?  For example, in the
> >> framework/catalina/ofbiz-component.xml file there is a configuration to
> >> run
> >> tomcat in a true container cluster.
> >>
> >
> > I personnaly decided to not change things there (ie to keep the default
> > Tomcat session manager) and to rather use sticky sessions.
> > More about that at http://markmail.org/message/kr72apsujnz4gmqa
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> >  Thanks in advance for your help on these questions.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Brett
> >>
> >>
> > --
> >
>

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