From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T07:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling Timeout::Error from TCPSocket

I'm going to be running this test every minute.  If it takes two
minutes to time out, that doesn't do me any good.

On Apr 2, 2005 3:08 PM, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:
> Pat Maddox wrote:
> > Alright, basically this is what I want to do.
> >
> > Try to make a connection to a port, with a maximum timeout value of 3
> > seconds.  If it times out, try again two more times.  If the port is
> > closed, just give up.  So the second guess you made is more accurate.
> 
> If you're going to be retrying the same server over and over again, you
> might as well let it timeout on its own instead of interrupting it
> prematurely just so you can start over again.
> 
> However, if you were attempting connections across a list of replicated
> servers, stopping on the first successful connection, then this might be
> worth doing, but you might be better off using several threads in that case.
> 
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> Glenn Parker | glenn.parker-AT-comcast.net | <http://www.tetrafoil.com/>
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