[ic] Replication/load balancing

[interch]

No reason actually other than wondering how much work it would be to do a
solution that relied less on specific network configurations.  More than
likely we will simply use nfs and one of our server irons to do the load
balancing.  I figure with a good nfs server and at least 2-3 ic servers
running each on separate boxes that should be more than reliable enough,
and with the server iron we can put the ic boxes on reserved addresses and
make the whole thing pretty secure.  I've tested a lot of this out using a
fbsd box running multiple copies of ic in jails and it seems to work
fine, except for some signal handling bugs that have to do with the jail
environments themselves.

Chris


On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Mike Heins wrote:

> Quoting interch (interch@web3.valley-internet.com):
> > 
> > 
> > I am starting the process of looking at the best way to put together a
> > redundant load balanced IC implementation, and before I really start
> > digging thought I would ask this first.
> > 
> > What parts of the IC catalog directory, the pages, config files,
> > templates, etc.., could not be stored and accessed entirely from a
> > database?
> 
> In 4.7.x, very little, but it would be difficult to go through and 
> check everything. You can actually pull the pages from a database,
> and most of the configuration files can also be put in a database.
> 
> But why not NFS? It is fast, and with firewalls it is pretty secure.
> 
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