On Feb 7, 2007, at 09:21, Mark Alexander Friedgan wrote:

> We've been struggling with this problem for months. We use  
> TupleSpace to
> implement a distributed processing framework and periodically if  
> the number
> of objects
> in the TupleBag gets large (not ridiculous but 50,000 or so) the  
> TupleSpace
> begins to take 100pct cpu and is effectively neutered and must be  
> restarted.
> We've been trying to come up
> with a better implementation of TupleBag but have not had much luck  
> so far.
> Has anyone else done this?

I've heard a few people talk of it (mainly, TupleSpace with a  
persistence (database)), but to my knowledge nobody's done it.