wiki madness

[Mike McGrath]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:06:04PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>   
>> 1) app3 serves the site form.
>> 2) User fills out form and submits
>> 3) app4 processes the form results (including the call to site.sync()) 
>> and raises a redirect back to the form.
>> 4) app3 gets the request and pulls the stale data out of its cache 
>> because site.sync() wasn't called on this server.
>>     
>
> Another option that dawns on me, that also matches Mike's goals for
> the applications servers, would be to change the balancer.  Instead of
> evenly balancing between app3 and app4, we set the weight on app3 to
> be very very high, like 2^32-1 or whatever the max is, and set the
> weight for app4 to be 1.  That will redirect the traffic to app3 all
> the time, except when it's offline, in which case it'll redirect to
> app4, yes?
>   
I've tried stuff like that in the past, its sub-optimal and hacky :)  
Why are we even using cache for MM?  Its pretty low traffic compared to 
the mirrorlist.

    -Mike