Load Balancing, User Visible Service objects, Runningman

Question

1. Load Balancing
Load Balancing a partition has nothing to do with single or multi-threaded
behaviour of that partition. If you load balance a partition it means that
you can start 1 or more copies of that partition. How many to start can be
specified. If the partition is load balanced there will be router partition
that routes calls to any of the services in that partition.
Now let us look at a special kind of partition (load balanced partition
that has an Env visible SO and a user visible DbSession). This is one of
the design patterns to acccess the database efficiently. Each of these
partitions are single threaded because DbSession is inherently single
threaded. This partition is single threaded because Dbsession is single
threaded and not because the partition is replicated.
Another case is when you make a partition load balanced and it has only
SO(s) made out of tool classes and does not have Dbsessions then each of
these partitions can run multi-threaded beacuse there are no
single-threaded objects to make the partition single threaded
2. User Visibility
Case A - If you have only User visible SO(s) in a partition then each
behaves like a global named object. Whoever accesses it will get a copy of
their own.
Case B - If you have a user visible SO and an Env Visible SO in the same
partition then the user visible SO will be private to the partition and
cannot be accessed from outside that partition.
3. Running Man
When you run an application by clicking on the running man Forte uses its
default partitioning scheme and runs the application. The partition scheme
that you made will be used only when you run the application distributed or
from the partition workshop. This is the time you might encounter errors if
your partitioning is not right.
Hope this helps.
Nirmal

Answer 1

Don,
You are right. I should have said - Forte uses its own partitioning scheme
not the default scheme you see when you open partition workshop.
Nirmal
From: Don Nelson <[email protected]>
To: Nirmal P Uppalapati <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Load Balancing, User Visible Service objects, Running man
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 10:45 PM
Nirmal,
One note on the "running man"...
At 08:12 PM 10/22/97 -0500, Nirmal P Uppalapati wrote:
3. Running Man
When you run an application by clicking on the running man Forte uses
its
default partitioning scheme and runs the application. The partitionscheme
that you made will be used only when you run the application distributedor
from the partition workshop. This is the time you might encounter errorsif
your partitioning is not right.
Actually, clicking on the "running man" from the repository or project
workshop will cause the application to be run VERY differently thanrunning
it distributed.
It's not technically correct to say that the default partitioning schemeis
used with the running man.
Forte consulting offers a deployment workshop that covers the finerpoints
of this and other distributed issues.
Don
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