[p4] Improve robustness on poor networks?

[Russell C. Jackson]

And it is a read only cache of the main server. It doesn't offer the 
same functionality that P4Proxy does in that you can't use it as cache 
to production server.

Thanks,
Rusty

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Shiv Sikand wrote:
> Chris,
>
> IC Manage sells a product called icmrep. icmrep can replicate both db 
> and depot files in near real time from your main office p4d to give you 
> a localized p4d for sync and other read operations. The replication is 
> highly tolerant of poor links (latency, bandwidth, dropped packets etc) 
> and is transactionally consistent with your master p4d. This solution 
> can therefore eliminate your problem since your users will be running 
> against a local p4d.
>
> The only requirement which can be a potential show stopper is that the 
> replicator is only supported on Unix/GNU-Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Shiv
>
>
>   
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:07:29 -0700
>> From: "Chris Weiss" <chris.weiss at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [p4] Improve robustness on poor networks?
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>> Our network's a bit spotty - if our pipe to the outside world gets
>> saturated, we start losing packets. This spells trouble for our remote
>> office as they'll be in the middle of a big sync and P4 will throw a
>> WSAE_TIMEOUT.
>>
>> Does anyone have any tips (outside of QoS) on ways to avoid P4
>> dropping connections so easily? We've already got a proxy server in
>> the remote office, but it still disconnects far too often due to
>> packet loss.
>>
>>     
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