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[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:42:37 -0800 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

> At 9:21 PM -0800 12/13/00, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> >> http://www.gnqs.org/

>> What's performance like?

> Seems okay, but I'm not really stressing it.

I'm currently going back and forth on usine an external queue
system.  Its a nice idea, and there are definite administrative and
control benefits, but its also moderately complex, is likely
unfamiliar to many/most SysAdms, adds a new level of fault
intolerance/dependency to distributed systems and exposes several
security concerns that aren't entirely attractive.

My current noodling is tending towards implementing a queue-like
system using light-weight self-discovering processes that could
easily be individually removed and their interconnects replaced by
calls to a real queueing system (whatever that may be) on an
ad-hoc/per-site basis.  The implementation complexity isn't that bad
(the documentation would be), but the number of interface
abstractions is kinda scary.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw@kanga.nu
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