We ended up implementing a task/queue system which uses a global pointer. Basically the pointer just increments ... so we have thousands of tasks that just increment this one pointer.
The problem is that we're seeing contention on it and not being able to write this record properly. We're just doing a CAS operation now to read the existing value, then increment it. I think it might have been better to implement this as a counter. Would that be inherently faster or would a CAS be about the same? I can't really test it without deploying it so I figured I would just ask here first. Kevin -- We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations Engineers! Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts>
