[Swift-devel] execution.retries

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:51 -0500, lixi at uchicago.edu wrote:
> >It's taking a guess at when the site will recover and when 
> other sites
> >will be available. I don't think there's a way to know. 
> Which is why it
> >probably should be as exponential as possible.
> >
> 
> How about restricting the same job to be resubmitted to the 
> same site after an exception. Because I suspect the similar 
> thing would happen after replication is enabled (of course, 
> just my assumption). Let's imagine, if all other sites are 
> overloaded. Would be a copy job submitted to the same 
> unresponsive site? 

Replication won't happen if a job fails.

> 
> This idea just came into my mind suddenly, if it doesn't 
> make sense, forget it.
> 
> Xi