[Swift-devel] Re: scheduler foo

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:09 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> Seems to work better now on my laptop.
> 
> With 90% success rate for jobs, it can sometimes manage to complete the 
> 1000 job test, sometimes not (failing with too many retries, which I'd 
> expect given that number of jobs and that failure rate).
> 
> With 80% success rate even the 15 job 130-fmri test takes a long time to 
> complete.

Yes. The scaling back is based on the assertion that it helps, which it
clearly doesn't in this case. However, in a multi-site case it would
make sense.

> 
> I'll do more testing but this seems better.
> 
> I think I still want to put in configuration options to allow the delay 
> when scores are negative to be configured (or disabled entirely, which I 
> think is sometimes desirable for single site runs)

Right.

>