[ic] Multi catalog IC setups

[interch]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Mike Heins wrote:

> Quoting interch (interch@web3.valley-internet.com):
> > 
> > I am trying to anticipate possible problems when scaling IC to handle
> > anywhere from 1000 to 50,000 catalogs.  We have a fairly robust load
> > balancing system in place now but any particular issues I may want to be
> > aware of?
> 
> 1000 catalogs is not really viable in one daemon -- each one takes
> quite a bit of memory.  I have run systems with 2000 SubCatalog entries,
> but those take a lot less memory.
> 
> The way to do this is to dynamically load the catalog configuration from
> a database via means of an Autoload using a GlobalSub -- I have posted
> on this many times. You define one template catalog, then modify the
> configuration based on entries in a database.

Ok just to get myself straight on this, you use the Autoload in a
catalog.cfg that is defined in interchange.cfg as a SubCatalog?

Chris


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