[Swift-devel] execution.retries

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:10 -0500, lixi at uchicago.edu wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> I'm not saying that a job fails. I think that replicas of 
> job would be submitted after a time threshold because the 
> original job is still not finished. But this might not means 
> that job necessarily fails. In this case, the replica would 
> be possibly submitted to the same site as the original job.

Ah, yes. I see. You are right. This may be the case.