Clustering the SP

[Martin Haase]

Hi Scott,

thanks again, highly appreciated.

Regards,
Martin

Am 22.01.2014 17:05, schrieb Cantor, Scott:
> On 1/22/14, 10:29 AM, "Martin Haase" <Martin.Haase at DAASI.de> wrote:
>> thank you for your time. I understand that there's an ODBC resource
>> problem, and that the best option is not to use SP session at all once
>> the app has its session.
> Well, possibly, but using worker mode, which is how *all* Apache servers
> in 2014 (or frankly 2005) should be configured, may well work fine.
>
> I know for a fact that PHP can be configured to allow for worker mode by
> using an out of process PHP engine with a process pool. So that is the
> answer.
>
>> But what about the shared shibd? What I do not understand is that "the
>> remoting was not meant
>> to work across machines". The Wiki recommends that many machines can
>> share a common shibd.
> It says they can, and that it may work for low volumes.
>
>> What if I put a load balancer in front of two shibd's and, if the active
>> fails, the LB switches over to the passive? I understand all sessions
> >from the active shibd node will be lost then, but I could live with that.
>
> I believe based on the mere fact you have some kind of load issue that it
> will not scale even close to what's needed. I've seen it kill performance.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
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