Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-27 Thread Ian Eslick
On May 27, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that SQL databases are a safer bet than Berkeley DB for having several processes on different machines talking to the same store, so I will have one instance of postgresql

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-27 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think that SQL databases are a safer bet than Berkeley DB > > for having several processes on different machines talking to the same > > store, so I will have one instance of postgresql running on a server > > with scsi raid 10 an

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-25 Thread Ian Eslick
On May 25, 2007, at 4:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ian, Robert, and Henrik I'll try to comment based on the responses received from the three of you in this single thread so as to minimize the posts. Before proceeding, let me just clarify that I am only interested in using the B

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-25 Thread lists
Hello Ian, Robert, and Henrik I'll try to comment based on the responses received from the three of you in this single thread so as to minimize the posts. Before proceeding, let me just clarify that I am only interested in using the BDB backend. > I would have to disagree about the documentatio

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-25 Thread Henrik Hjelte
I'm in the same situation, hoping to have several web servers connected to one store, and this is the setup I will use. The reason for multithreading in a web app as I see it is mostly to make use of several processors, which is not something solved with the allegrocache paper if I remember it righ

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Eslick
As a user of Elephant, you really shouldn't have to worry too much about threading so long as you follow the simple rules laid out in the manual under "multi-threading". I think you are trying to understand how we make this possible since it seems harder from your read of the acache interf

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-24 Thread Robert L. Read
I would have to disagree about the documentation for Elephant not being abundant---Ian has written a 118 page manual. Nonetheless, you are correct that the use of Elephant in a multi- threaded webserver environment is not heavily documented. Ian and I have discussed the need for a killer "example

[elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-24 Thread lists
Hi all, I'm still on my quest to learn to effectively use Elephant. Although documentation is not so abundant, I've gotten a pretty good start with the available documentation. However, I don't have such a strong background on using ODBs and mainly come from the SQL world. So, just for curious