Escalating Defferal Interval, no ceiling???

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

Author	Message
cardinalsmurf Send message Joined: 24 Jan 01 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,934,778 RAC: 521	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?
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Keck_Komputers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1575 Credit: 1,383,021 RAC: 1,105	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
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cardinalsmurf Send message Joined: 24 Jan 01 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,934,778 RAC: 521	Message 2035 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 18:41:13 UTC
	Ceilings I understand. But 2 weeks? Doesn't that seem a bit excessive?
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