From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-09T23:36:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Package idea: attempt

Jim Weirich wrote:
> John Carter wrote:
>> Moral of the Story :
>>
>>    Unlogged / unreported retries mask bugs, always log / report number 
>> of retries.
> 
> Also, beware of retries in multiple levels of protocol stack.  I've 
> heard stories of system that retried the lowest level of a protocol 3 
> times with a 30 second timeout (total 90 second timeout).  The next 
> layer above that added its own 3 tries (now we have 4 1/2 minutes before 
> timeout failure).  The next several layers also did retries, with the 
> end result taking *hours* to time out.
> 
> Moral of story:  Don't add retries indiscriminately.
> 
> -- Jim Weirich
> 

Yep, definitely something to watch out for.  What can I say?  Use with 
caution. :)

- Dan