[Swift-devel] too much slow down.

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 16:02 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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...

Unless it's a bug in the specification (e.g. incorrect home dir, missing
application, incorrect output files, etc.), in which case it doesn't
matter how much you wait.

>  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.
>