[p4] Improve robustness on poor networks?

[Russell C. Jackson]

But, how does the proxy uses the meta-data? That is the key feature that 
would make proxys the perfect tool for global companies.

Thanks,
Rusty

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Shiv Sikand wrote:
> Rusty,
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Shiv
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> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Rusty
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>> RCJackson Consulting
>> Perforce Consulting Partner and Certified Trainer
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>> Russell C. Jackson
>> 211 River Oaks Lane
>> Russellville, AR 72802
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>> rusty at rcjacksonconsulting.com
>> http://www.rcjacksonconsulting.com
>> tel:      479-696-9710
>> fax:      479-967-0963
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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?
>>>> To: "Perforce Users" <perforce-user at perforce.com>
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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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