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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:34:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9
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On Sun Aug 30 14:37:29 EDT 2009, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> One way to make this kind of interesting is to address how you'd do a
> reasonable zeroconf effort given that you need to boot 1m+ machines.
> We've booted 4400*250 VMs on a machine at sandia, and, let me tell
> you, it was a pain. It is amusing to watch the programs traverse
> million line /etc/hosts file -- for a while.

how does this apply to plan 9?  ndb already provides
for indexed databases.  but i have not tried this with
millions of entries.

- erik