From: John Carter Date: 2006-06-09T09:24:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Package idea: attempt On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Daniel Berger wrote: We had a bug in a system that did something like this so it failed literally 99 times out of a hundred. Since we had a fast retry we only noticed the bug when I went hunting another bug and went around inserting logging statements everywhere and found the retry / fail producing the massive stream of BLAH failed retrying messages. Fixed that bug and suddenly system a lot faster / more stable.... Moral of the Story : Unlogged / unreported retries mask bugs, always log / report number of retries. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later." From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.