October 26, 2009

PoD 2.1.1

Finally a new version of PoD has been released.
This time PoD got lots of improvements and most of all the pod-agent - a core module, has been upgraded and now made a use of the thread pool pattern. This gives a much smaller virtual memory footprint and also improves the performance by a huge factor in a network intensive operations (such as a file list validation when thousands of files are in the list and a merging) when many worker nods are used.

All users are kindly asked to stop using all prevues versions of PoD, including betas and move to v2.1.1.
The first reason is that this version is a factor of 10 faster in network intensive operations (like file validation and merging) and a virt. memory footprint of it is now reduced by a factor of 14 in compare to the prevues release + many many more improvements.
The second, since I am the only developer I can't give much support for older versions. So, if you have a problem with PoD the first question would be, "are you using the latest one?"... ;)

BTW, starting from this version, PoD generates a helper header file. The header should help you to automat a PROOF connection string in your scripts.
Read more in user's manual.

There are many more other features added and fixed. You can find more information in the Release Notes.

Find more details on PoD Trac.

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