Sharing virtual memory: several Mnesia nodes on the same machine

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

On 16 Aug 2005, at 10:34, Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB) wrote:

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> No. The nodes run as separate Unix (or windows) processes,
> using no shared memory, communicating over TCP.
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> The main reason for running several nodes on one machine
> has been to simulate a real network.

We run several mnesia nodes on one machine which are all part of the 
same schema to minimise the effect of a partitioned network. One huge 
database is split across two erlang nodes which are then replicated to 
two other nodes on another machine. When we have a partitioned network, 
we have one consistent copy of the database on one machine. This scheme 
has worked quite well for us.

Chandru

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED]On Behalf Of Joel Reymont
>> Sent: den 16 augusti 2005 11:24
>> To: Erlang Users' List
>> Subject: Sharing virtual memory: several Mnesia nodes on the same
>> machine
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>> Folks,
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>> If I have several nodes on the same machine using the _same_ Mnesia
>> database, is the memory shared using mmap or some such mechanism?
>>
>>      Thanks, Joel
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