On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 17:00 -0800, Richard Yen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wondering if it's okay to drop listen entries (in an effort to sculpt  
> my cluster).  I have a very small cluster that needs to replicate  
> quickly, but there are 15 or so nodes, so all the cross talk across  
> the network (sync_interval == 500) is generating a lot of load.
> 
> I know that in the past, STORE PATH was modified to imply a STORE  
> LISTEN as well.  As a result, it looks like the sl_listen table  
> contains entries for nodes that the local node doesn't need to listen  
> to.  Furthermore, since the data set is very small (on the order of <  
> 100MB), we don't anticipate ever needing to fail over or switch  
> provider.
> 
> Would doing DROP LISTEN on the "unnecessary" nodes create any  
> undesirable side effects?

You should drop the uneeded paths.  The listen entries will be reshaped
accordingly.

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