[rabbitmq-discuss] Network partitions

Ceri Storey ceri at lshift.net
Thu Oct 3 17:02:30 BST 2013


(03/10/13 16:56), Alvaro Videla wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com
> <mailto:simon at rabbitmq.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 03/10/2013 2:27AM, Alvaro Videla wrote:
>
>         While I don't know about your exact problem keep in mind that
>         a GC pause
>         could appear as a network partition.
>
>
>     Err, what? Where did you get that idea?
>
>
> On the following blog post and other CAP Theorem discussions on
> HN/Twitter/etc: http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable

Thankfully, the Erlang VM having per-process heaps (and so keeping them
small) should help avoid that in practice. :)
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