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IceGrid Replication and load balancing per function invocation

spsoni
spsoni
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Hi,

I am curious, if is there any mechanism in Ice products to get load balancing per function invocation rather than per connection using IceGrid replication.

I am working on distributing data on different nodes in round robin fashion. Currently, I am using IceGrid.Query.findAllReplicas function to get all replicated adapter proxies and doing my own round robin thing, but is there any inbuilt thing available.

I also tried doing this by calling shutdown on server after finishing every function invocation, so that client will query icegrid again for next proxy, but this slowed down performance a lot. So, I switched to above technique of using findAllReplicas. But I want to make replicas transparent to client, so is there any better way of doing this?

Thanks.

Surya

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  • benoit
    benoit Rennes, France
    Hi,

    Yes, you can configure the proxy in your client to not re-use the same connection for all invocations on the proxy and to consult the IceGrid locator for each invocation to figure out which replica to use, for example:
       proxy = proxy->ice_connectionCached(false)->ice_locatorCacheTimeout(0);

    Check the documentation of the ice_connectionCached, ice_locatorCacheTimeout and ice_endpointSelection proxy methods in the Ice manual for more information. I also recommend checking out Matthew's newsletter article on Ice connection management.

    Let us know if you need more information.

    Cheers,
    Benoit.

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