From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-09-23T03:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: horribly impossible debugging task

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Kevin McConnell wrote:

> Just had one other suggestion (hopefully more useful than the last :-)
>
> Could you seperate out the db-related code into a little 'proxy' app, to run
> on the same machine as where the db files are, and have your clients connect
> to it (to read the job, submit the pid etc) ?  It might help solve any
> potential locking hassles (if that's even the problem), since the only thing
> touching the database would be local.  And hey, if nothing else, it could be
> interesting to find out which side of the code coredumps :-)

i'm now looking at using detach.rb, which creates a drb object out of any
existing object.  basically it would be a little servlet for the daemon's use
only.  i think this may be the way to go.  thanks for the idea.

regards.

-a
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