Escalating Defferal Interval, no ceiling???

Message boards : Number crunching : Escalating Defferal Interval, no ceiling???
Message board moderation

Author	Message
cardinalsmurf Send message Joined: 24 Jan 01 Posts: 6 Credit: 2,053,406 RAC: 0	Message 1981 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 16:57:50 UTC Whose idea was it to allow the deferral interval to simply continue escalating with no ceiling? Was there a reason for this design or was it an oversight? What was wrong with the classic 1 hour? ID: 1981 ·
Keck_Komputers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1575 Credit: 4,152,111 RAC: 1	Message 2027 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 18:29:48 UTC There are ceilings, two weeks is the highest one. By having a random and increasing retry period the servers are less likely to get overloaded and go back down immediately after an outage. John Keck testing BOINC since 2002/12/08 ID: 2027 ·
cardinalsmurf Send message Joined: 24 Jan 01 Posts: 6 Credit: 2,053,406 RAC: 0	Message 2035 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 18:41:13 UTC Ceilings I understand. But 2 weeks? Doesn't that seem a bit excessive? ID: 2035 ·

 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.