Re: investigation into replacing ref. counts with leases

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM> writes:

> For comparison, DCOM does pinging, but it's handled at the level of the
> middleware, not individual objects; the bad side of pinging
> is the extra traffic (which could be significant if the
> ping period is short, the number of objects large and/or
> the bandwidth limited). DCOM does a ping between each
> pair of communicating hosts (I guess on the assumption that
> a failure to receive a ping is due to a network problem).

Well, the same applies for leases; to extend the lease you need to do a
CORBA call as well.

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Martin Baulig
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