[p4] Improve robustness on poor networks?

[Shiv Sikand]

Rusty,

Actually, this is not entirely true. With a little bit of magic you can 
use this localized server to populate a P4P, making your network 
transfers from the main server very efficient and reliable over poor 
networks. Again, Unix/GNU-Linux required.

Cheers,
Shiv





Russell C. Jackson wrote:
> 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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