[erlang-questions] Using ram-only mnesia in place of gen_server+ets table

[Ludovic Demblans]

Hi,

If you plan to use dirty read-only acces, (and if this is the only  
problem), any process can acces the table data if it is in 'protected'  
mode (which is the default.

Cheers

lud

Le Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:42:48 +0200, Shayan Pooya <shayan@REDACTED> a  
écrit:

> Disco filesystem gc involves a step in which a process builds an ets  
> table
> on the master and
> the slave nodes query this ets table regularly afterwards.
> The ets table is owned by a gen_server which responds to the queries from
> the
> slaves using this ets table.
>
> I am experimenting with using a mnesia table instead of this ets table so
> that
> the gen_server is not involved in this operation (There are a lot of
> queries and
> this master process is a bottleneck).
> This is a ram-only mnesia table which is created and then made read-only.
> All of
> the operations use mnesia:dirty_* functions and the slave nodes never
> modify the
> table.
>
> 1. Is this going to avoid the gen_server bottleneck?
> 2. I am thinking of adding all of the nodes (master + slaves) as the
> ram-copies for
> this table in order to have local lookups on the slave nodes.
> Is this going to slow down the creation of the mnesia table? (as
> said before, it is only using dirty_* functions for modifying the table).


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