[Swift-devel] too much slow down.

[skenny at uchicago.edu]

so, i get similar behavior when i try to run w/o a valid
proxy...swift hangs. this is an error that, it seems to me,
should return immediately regardless of whether you're running
multi or single site (or whether you're willing to wait a week
or not)...

i'm *guessing* this is what mihael means by "transient" vs
"non-transient" errors (?)

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:24 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>  
>Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] too much slow down.  
>To: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
>Cc: Michael Andric <andric at uchicago.edu>,
skenny at uchicago.edu, swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
>
>
>On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>
>> We need to classify errors into transients and non-transients.
>
>...
>
>Any error is transient if you wait long enough... pretty much
that's what 
>this delay stuff is doing anyway - trying to avoid
transients. But what a 
>transient is is subjective. Quite legitimately a 1h site
outage could be a 
>transient or could not be, depending on what you're trying to do.
>
>The choice of constants (of which there are two) used in
delay calculation 
>is poor at the moment in that it appears to be giving
ridiculously long 
>delays.
>
>I think what those values should be will be decided by user
taste. Some 
>would rather have workflows fail instantly (for instantly =
<5min) whilst 
>others might be prepared to wait a week... at the moment, it
appears 
>biased towards the latter.
>
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