Shahaf Abileah <shahaf at redfin.com> writes:
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> Is there a way to limit the amount of bandwidth that slony uses?:p>
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> :p> 
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> Within our data center we don't really care how much network is used to replicate DB's from one server to another.  However, we'd like to set up
> slaves in other locations, and we can get slapped with huge fees if we have big spikes of network bandwidth usage (e.g. when you first set up a
> slave and you need to bulk-copy all the tables).:p>

I'd use some sort of network appliance (whether physical, or a Linux
kernel extension) to handle this.

Slony-I doesn't "gild itself" with this sort of functionality; it's
not a network management system, it's not a connection broker, it
won't make you coffee and toast in the morning, it's neither a floor
wax nor a dessert topping.

That sort of thing is terribly environment-specific, and there are
tools that can handle traffic shaping much better than Slony-I ever
could by itself.
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