+1 for (a).

Rajith

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Andy Goldstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> My vote is for (a)
>
> Andy
>
> On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Gordon Sim wrote:
>
>> So, to follow up and summarise this thread so far, the only contentious 
>> point has been the loss of the 'flow to disk' functionality.
>>
>> Though the current solution doesn't limit the memory used by a large queue, 
>> it can in certain cases reduce the rate of memory growth which in turn may 
>> buy a little more time to resolve the root cause. So while those using it 
>> are less than fully satisfied, they are (understandably) concerned at having 
>> even this limited solution taken away without having any clear plan to offer 
>> a replacement.
>>
>> I have spent a little time thinking through what a better solution might 
>> look like and how much effort it would take. I believe that for ~3-5 weeks 
>> work I could get something better in place. It would be, in the first 
>> instance, posix only[1]. It would be mutually exclusive with lvq or priority 
>> queue options. However it would be a more effective limit on the memory 
>> consumed as such a queue grew, and (I hope) would have a less drastic 
>> performance penalty at larger sizes.
>>
>> There are a few options for how to proceed, and I'd like to take a quick 
>> straw poll to see which path the community favours.
>>
>> (a) go ahead with the refactor, including the removal of features mentioned 
>> in the previous mail, subsequently focus first on AMQP 1.0 support, only 
>> then return to add paged queue support
>>
>> (b) go ahead with the refactor, including the removal of features mentioned 
>> in the previous mail, subsequently focus first on paged queue support, then 
>> proceed to add AMQP 1.0 support
>>
>> (c) don't go ahead with the refactor until it can be combined with an 
>> alternative to flow to disk, and only then proceed with AMQP 1.0 support
>>
>> (d) don't go ahead with the refactor at all
>>
>> I myself favour (a). I think AMQP 1.0 support is more important and more 
>> work and would like to make more progress on that as soon as possible in 
>> order to have something ready for the 0.20 release. I can't guarantee that 
>> this path would result in the 0.20 release having the replacement for flow 
>> to disk functionality, but if not it would come soon after.
>>
>> I'm not so keen on (c) because maintain such a large patch against a 
>> continually moving trunk is a lot of work in itself and I think that time 
>> can be better spent. I'm not keen on (d) because I honestly don't think I 
>> can add decent 1.0 support (or fix a number of known issues) without 
>> something like this refactor.
>>
>> Anyway, over to you. Let me know what you think, I'm keen we reach some 
>> agreement by the end of the week. In the meantime I'll try and make my 
>> proposal for the flow to disk replacement a bit more concrete.
>>
>> --Gordon.
>>
>> [1] It will be designed such that it is relatively simple to provide 
>> alternative implementations for the posix functionality such that anyone 
>> with interest can easily add windows support for example. From what I can 
>> tell, it doesn't look like flow to disk is supported on windows at present 
>> anyway. I could be wrong.
>>
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