Mnesia and Oracle

[Valentin Micic]

No, IMHO as much as one may anticipate these kind of problems to be WAN 
related (which is to be expected, and does happen often), they do occur on 
LAN as well. Say, guys that are responsible for upgrading software on local 
switch, and one networking company from San FranCISCO does that whenever 
they feel like it, well these guys, for whatever reason, like to change the 
settings for the port -- thus,  auto_negotiate flag that was set to false, 
end up being true, what used to be full duplex ends up being half... and as 
the traffic volume picks up, so do the error/collisions etc. After a while 
heartbeat message that is send to one node is going to be delayed enough (or 
rather response to it might be buried under thousands of messages) to render 
the connection to such a node invalid. When that happens, mnesia get 
partitioned, eventhough connection to that node may be restored.

V.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Reymont" <joelr1@REDACTED>
To: "Valentin Micic" <valentin@REDACTED>
Cc: "Yariv Sadan" <yarivvv@REDACTED>; "Ryan Rawson" <ryanobjc@REDACTED>; 
"Inswitch Solutions" <erlang@REDACTED>; <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Mnesia and Oracle


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> On Aug 10, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Valentin Micic wrote:
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>> Look, despite the fact that more and more money has been invested  in the 
>> network infrastructure, it seems that networks are less  stable than 
>> before. It is my experience that deploying distributed  mnesia with table 
>> replication over such a network, invariantly  leads to problems -- mnesia 
>> gets partitioned, and, depending on how  complex the data model is, it 
>> might be quite a difficult job to  recover & re-syncronize.
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> You are talking about a WAN as opposed to a LAN, right?
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> There shouldn't be any replication problems in local gigabit network,  for 
> example, am I correct?
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