Aldor <an at mediaroot.de> writes:
> I did some very detailed tests and found out that Slony wasn't really
> guilty. Running slony with many daemons for another database and two
> daemons for the mentioned problem database was hurting the power of the
> database server just a little bit.
>
> The problem was something else and had nothing to do with Slony.
>
> Slony is doing his work quite good.

It's certainly worth the investigation.

One of the fundamental principles of complex distributed systems (and
if Slony-I is involved, you've definitely got that, simply out of the
sheer number of components) is that there are _always_ bottlenecks
that result from the combination of components.  

And the more components there are, the more opportunities there are
for unexpected interactions.
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