Re: Staggering Replication start times

2012-03-21 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
What William said was the original motivation to sync all slaves to poll approximately at the same time. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:38 PM, William Bell wrote: > For our use case this is a no-no. When the index is updated, we need > all indexes to be updated at the same time. > > We put all index

Re: Staggering Replication start times

2012-03-20 Thread William Bell
For our use case this is a no-no. When the index is updated, we need all indexes to be updated at the same time. We put all indexes (slaves) behind a load balancer and the user would expect the same results from page to page. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Eric Pugh wrote: > I am playing with

Staggering Replication start times

2012-03-20 Thread Eric Pugh
I am playing with an index that is sharded many times, between 64 and 128. One thing I noticed is that with replication set to happen every 5 minutes, it means that each slave hits the master at the same moment asking for updates: :00:00, :05:00, :10:00, :15:00 etc. Replication takes very li