<div dir="ltr">Global registration is inherently a consensus problem, and thus will have problems with liveness, as you've discovered. I can't speak to the implementation of the 'global' module, but I would suspect it is not partition-tolerant. Is there a way you can reconfigure your application to have locally-registered processes (one-per-node), or not require a single distribution point? <div><br></div><div>There is also some work done by my colleague Chris Meiklejohn for eventually-consistent (and partition-tolerant) process groups, if you don't require a single authoritative process: <a href="https://github.com/cmeiklejohn/riak_pg">https://github.com/cmeiklejohn/riak_pg</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 5:36 AM, 289602744 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:289602744@qq.com" target="_blank">289602744@qq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>These days,I found global did not work well.</div><div>I have hundreds of nodes,and these nodes are connected with each other.</div><div>But on some nodes, I can't get a process's global registered name with global:whereis_name, althrough I can get the node info by net_kernel:node_info/1</div><div>I didnot find a way to resolve this problem. Unless I unregister that process's name and then register the name again, and then, I can get the global name by global:whereis_name/1.</div><div><span style="line-height:1.5">Is there anything wrong with global? with so many nodes, I can't unregister and then register a process name every time I find global return me an undefined. </span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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