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Re: [Shoal-Users] Shoal Questions

From: Shreedhar Ganapathy <Shreedhar.Ganapathy_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:34:22 -0700

Hi Mike
Just another follow up to my earlier email. It would be great if you
could share your success story with Shoal. We can then feature it on our
stories blog. http://blogs.sun.com/stories.

Thanks
Shreedhar

Mike Wannamaker wrote:
>
> *Hi,*
>
> * *
>
> *I was wondering a few things about shoal. I am researching whether
> we can put shoal into our system as the clustering framework. We
> currently have our own api for cluster messages and we used JGROUPs
> for communication layer. *
>
> * *
>
> *1) **In a multi-homed machine, more than 1 nic, can I specify the
> main IP address I want a specific instance to communicate on?*
>
> *2) **Is there any performance data for shoal? IE: What the
> message threshold is before you start saturating the network?*
>
> *3) **Is there a way to get the InetAddress of a machine through
> it's messages? IE: When I get a JoinedAndReady notification or a
> Failure notification can I get the InetAddress of the machine joined
> or failed?*
>
> *4) **Is there a way to set the time detection of a suspected
> failed node? IE: Right now I think it takes around 20 seconds or so?
> Is this configurable and at what cost?*
>
> * *
>
> *Thanks*
>
> *Mike*
>